Predictable Quotes

266 quotes by 238 authors

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. — Hannah Arendt
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins
I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile… — Christian Bale
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the… — Mario Batali
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. — Erskine Bowles
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' — Bill Bradley
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't… — Naomi Campbell
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of… — Sun Tzu
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started. — Donald Rumsfeld
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is… — Jacques Monod
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a… — David Steindl-Rast
Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated — Mike Krzyzewski
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road. — Tony Snow
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great.… — Paul Castellano

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