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“You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.”

People Knows Wells Certain Scene Predictable Refreshing

Author:Crystal Reed

“The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.”

World Able Young Simple Infinite Tolerate Predictable Autonomous

Book:Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

Source: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

“Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”

Humans May Long Earth Water Animal Pay Race Air Diversity Resources Clean Plant Species Weather Human Race Soil Predictable Minerals Dividends Clean Air Air And Water Mineral Resources

Author:Alex Steffen

“Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.”

Ifs Humans Littles Ends Grows Results Progress Seeds Tiny Cosmic Predictable End Results Twigs Penetration Afterthought Fortuitous

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”

Ifs Real Able Known Unexpected Unpredictable Anticipate Predictable Arrivals

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.”

Art Levels Virtue Fields Difficulty Boring Predictable Professionalism Dependable Predictability

Author:John Updike

“At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”

Years War Ends Lasts Mankind Approach Predictable Glamorous

Author:Frederic Raphael

“the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.”

Ifs World Used England Climate Weather Shock Comment Resentment Predictable Variables Monsoons Quixotic

Author:Ruth Rendell

“The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.”

“Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.”

Constant Approval Predictable Devalue

Author:Kit Reed

“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.”

Ifs May Facts Problem Running Fields Determined Dislike Lightning Timing Location Better Off Foe Predictable Bolts Inevitability Determinism Lightning Bolts Open Fields

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.”

Thinking Knows Littles Next Steps Dangerous Walking Tiny Poetry Is Predictable Plunge Next Steps Precipice Ridges

Author:Josephine Jacobsen

“Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.”

Rocks Talent Involved Music Is Predictable Rock Music Great Talent

Author:Zubin Mehta

“In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.”

Different Ends Able Term Animal Return Rings Spots Threatened Bulls Predictable Bullfighting Matadors

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.”

Music Thrive Predictable

Author:Chet Atkins

“There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata.”

Shows Struggle Television Entertainment Surprising Predictable

Author:Lucas Neff

“Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.”

Made Outsiders Predictable Iphone

Author:Jonathan Zittrain

“I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.”

Thinking Different Individual Careers Path Projects Eras Faster Predictable Trajectory Career Path Developmental

Author:Alex Timbers

“Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.”

States Opportunity Risk Comfortable Exciting Misery Familiar Settling Predictable Hanging On

Book:No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

Source: No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

“Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.”

Thinking Feels Wells Happens Courses Audience Minutes Predictable Bumps Hitchcock

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.”

Knows Long Moments Form Realizing Identity Perspective Long Time Assuming Sentences Who We Are That Moment Predictable

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.”

Mind Wonderful Function Madness Operations Machinery Astonishing Predictable Being Afraid Complication Simplification

Author:Kate Millett

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.”

“Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.”

Men World Reason White Mets Married India Sorry Boring White Man Divorced Predictable

Author:Deepa Mehta

“I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.”

Humans Animal Magic Stupid Silly Predictable

Author:Jason Lytle

“They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.”

“A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.”

Wells Might Courses Space Animal Brain Four Planets Evolution Species Peculiar Observers Bugs Casual Predictable Outer Space

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.”

Humans Human Beings Decision Theory Evidence Remains Errors Investing Financial Rational Investors Irrational Apostles Predictable Systematic

Author:John C. Bogle

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”

“The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.”

People Knows Trying Ends Character Feelings Actors Sleep Laughing Know How Talent Cry Scene Degrees Boring Crafts Predictable Good Actors

Author:Martin Landau

“The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.”

Important Reason Principles Reason Why Predictable

Author:Myles Munroe

“Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.”

People Ifs Years Law Break Lifetime Predictable

Author:Myles Munroe

“I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.”

People Ifs I Can Principles Guarantees Predictable

Author:Myles Munroe

“Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.”

Ifs Able Moving My Own Race Principles Air Feet Function Creator Inevitable Related Rats Predictable Aircraft

Author:Myles Munroe

“I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.”

Knows Looks Two Ends Together Felt Comedy Predictable Posters

Author:Jason Segel

“Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.”

Way Looks Diversity Institutions Financial Finished Logical Collapse Currency Predictable Monetary Ecosystems Monetary System Financial Institutions

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.”

Ifs Men Writing Children Littles Book Stories Challenges Situation Millions Satisfaction Accidents Familiar Freak Predictable Storyline Stepmothers

Author:Jillian Medoff

“Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.”

Hard Bigs Happens Jobs Highest Musician Standards Increase Conventional Predictable Gamble Likelihood Muster

Author:Max Bemis

“Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.”

Writing Fall Wise Words Sentimental Prey Predictable Good Writing Stale Polemics

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".”

Knows Ends Political Audience Comedy Mystery Decades Backgrounds Typical Predictable

Author:Isla Fisher

“The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.”

Government Action Cases Virtue Fairs Method Characteristics Bureaucracy Defining Predictable

Author:Max Weber

“A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.”

Predictions Predictable

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."”

Form Primitive Predictable Repetitive

Author:Fred Ritchin

“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore”

“Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.”

People Knows Jobs Leader Know How Ready Depends Battle Organization Crisis Behave Predictable Morale

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Reason Earth All Time Who We Are Predictable

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.”

“I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.”

Character Shows Rich Surprising Predictable

Author:David Nevins

“Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.”

People Want Giving Wind Citizens Comfortable Warm Consumers Baths Predictable

Book:The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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