Predictable Quotes

266 quotes by 238 authors

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play… — Seth Godin
It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system… — Mao Zedong
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer… — Harriet Lerner
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases… — Warren Buffett
The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent… — Victor Davis Hanson
A disruption of the circadian cycleâ€”the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeâ€”seems to be involved in many, if not most,… — William Styron
Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus… — Phil Bredesen
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon â€“ when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be… — Parker J. Palmer
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. — John Avlon
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic… — Dan Ariely
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller
A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment. — Harry Wong
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. — Tina Weymouth
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter
At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from… — Hillary Clinton
Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas. — John Anthony West
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it. — Ambrose Bierce
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play… — Ken Burns

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