Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is. — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
“Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.” — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Predictability would also seem to inspire confidence that a President [Donald] Trump would refrain from deciding to respond with overwhelming force when… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.” — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Some people just need a routine, and refuse to accept the consequences of predictability. In my experience, these people tend to get… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much:… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image