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
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them.… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
