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“Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.”

Thinking Logic Make Sense Predictable

Author:Paul Smith

“Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

“Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.”

People Inspiration Motivation Race Like You Racism Interaction Predictable

Author:Nate Silver

“Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.”

Next Tricks Predictable Guessing

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?”

Men Wonder Millions Quiet Silent Intimacy Predictable

Book:Donahue, my own story

Source: Donahue, my own story

“So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.”

“Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!”

Knows Happens Remember Fighting Results Risk Quitting Guarantees Predictable

Author:Jim Bouchard

“Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.”

Way Art Self Path Art Is Discovery Self Discovery Maps Conventional Predictable Enhancement

Book:Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit

“You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.”

Action Consequence Responsible Predictable

Book:Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

“Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.”

Way Heart Long Broken Ego Patterns Frightened Shore Surprising Stubborn Predictable

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.”

Fun Suits Guarantees Clown Predictable Algorithms Heuristics

Book:Code Complete

Source: Code Complete

“There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.”

Ifs Knows Looks Littles Law Space Treats Physics Weather Clock Accurate Predictable Orderly Explorers Star Gazing Laws Of Physics Regularity

Author:Wernher von Braun

“Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.”

Needs Littles Different Values Understanding Levels Responsibility Skills Photography Presses Photographer Photograph Zone Print Buttons Predictable Different Levels Technical Knowledge

Author:Minor White

“Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.”

Government Wish Results Liberty Millions Security Phones Customers Reports Shocked Predictable Phone Calls Nsa Erode

Author:Ron Paul

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Next Known Security Corners Cease Flavor Predictable

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.”

Country Done Certain Numbers Morning Sun Excellence Barack Rising Polls Empowered Predictable Loathe Rising In The Morning

Author:Dennis Quaid

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

People Problem Millions Habit Despite Expensive Tragic Funny Things Predictable Bad Habits

Book:See You at the Top

Source: See You at the Top

“Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.”

Should Hard Seems Life Is Joy Goal Study Sacrifice Hard Work Lessons Hardest Pursue Predictable Life Goal Study And Work

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.”

Ideas Able Stars Audience Rocks Figures Mysterious Defined Rock Star Predictable

Author:Debbie Harry

“To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.”

Decades Corny Predictable

Author:Annette Funicello

“Beauty is boring because it is predictable.”

Boring Predictable

Author:Umberto Eco

“Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.”

Horse Predictable

Book:From My Hands to Yours: Lessons from a Lifetime of Training Championship Horses

Source: From My Hands to Yours: Lessons from a Lifetime of Training Championship Horses

“Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.”

World Ability Safe All Things Predictable Default

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“God does not play dice.”

Love Life Inspirational Doe Play God Science Predictable Dice Predictability

Author:Albert Einstein

“Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.”

Vision Safe Expected Realms Predictable Vistas

Book:The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ

Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ

“To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.”

Men World Be A Man Predictable

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.”

Giving Attention Baby Safe Creating Concern Familiar End Times Spend Time Distracted Predictable Familiar Places

Author:Magda Gerber

“Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.”

Men Way Certain Order Black Simple Numbers Wonder Plans Lucky Red Logic Sticks Rounds Careful Wheels Anarchy Laughed Again And Again Predictable So Lucky Roulette Red And Black

Author:Loretta Chase

“The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.”

Wife Unpredictable Predictable Good Wife

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.”

Knows Feels Writing School Bits Models Actresses Singers Dancer Predictable Annoyed Screenplays Posh

Author:Emily Mortimer

“Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.”

Ends Middle Argument Predictable Contention Melodrama Beginning Middle And End

Author:Gay Hendricks

“Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.”

Knows Way Should Art Ends Stories Light Eye Earth Sound Born Dark Sleep Silence Darkness Sun Journey Flower Return Moon All Things Ultimate Each Day Sunset Sparks Sunrise Predictable

Author:Suzy Kassem

“One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.”

Ifs Thinking Want Life Is Ignorant Things In Life Naive Better Off Predictable

Author:Julius Erving

“Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

People Inspirational Mean Growth Steps Crisis Desirable Constructive Predictable Disruption New Words Times Of Crisis

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.”

Mind Unlikely Predictable

Author:Sheridan Smith

“The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.”

Looks Life Is Poor Trouble Ridiculous Dialogue Sentimental Twists Predictable Fluidity

Author:Martin Amis

“Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.”

Matter Events Evidence Aging Predictable Unexplored

Book:Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.”

Way Force Simple Greater Position Balls Tables Complexes Subtle Pool Organisms Richness Predictable Constrain Complex Systems External Forces New Position Pool Table

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.”

World Trying Matter No Matter What Predictable Chaotic

Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel

Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel

“Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.”

Facts Reality Life Is Surprise Predictions Unpredictable Predictable

Book:Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation

Source: Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation

“People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.”

People Has Beens Ideas Mother Asks Company Possibility Realms Ceo Predictable Upbringing Realm Of Possibility

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Trying to order your world so that its predictable and safe is counterproducti ve to growth.”

World Trying Order Growth Safe Predictable

Author:Mike Berry

“Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.”

Self Turns Unexpected Consistent Stable Flexible Machinery Predictable Unexpected Turns

Author:Antonio Damasio

“To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.”

Men Giving Humans Whole Past Affair Patterns Makers Precise Equations Predictable Eliminating

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Enough Past Seeds Predictable Soon Enough Looking To The Future

Author:Albert Einstein

“Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.”

Way Done Theory Research Obvious Determined Requirements Predictable Fashionable Approved

Author:Celia Green

“I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.”

Stuff Rocks Taste Predictable Indie Rock

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.”

Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey

“Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.”

Justice Opinion Conservative Predictable Justice Scalia

Author:F. Lee Bailey

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