“A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
“Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But” — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect… — Kevin Flynn Copy Share Image
The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk,… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives.… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed… — Dayna Devon Copy Share Image
The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Retirement had robbed Arbatov of his edge. Like most old men who live alone, he had settled into a carefully scripted daily… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability.… — Ilan Berman Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image