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“Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.”

Individual Jazz Unpredictability

Book:Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

Source: Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

“I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.”

Knows Heart Kind Important Shows Age Certain Girl Sex White Deals Common Car Loneliness Weapons Standards Ugly Technique Indifference Cynicism Solitary Rabbits Unpredictability Kind Of Girl Cad

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.”

“Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.”

Literature Monotonous Unpredictability

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.”

World Should Plans Security Military Models Assumption Static Unpredictability

Author:James Fallows

“I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.”

I Can Remember Joy Solutions Spots Carriages Unpredictability

Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters

Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters

“It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.”

Ideas Hard Waiting Painful Unpredictability

Author:Oscar Wilde

“In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.”

World Artist Novel Events This World Painting Happenings Delight Explanation Joyous Unpredictability Retrospective

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.”

Given Mistake Military Events Information Policy Difficulty Iraq Unpredictability

Author:Eric Alterman

“If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.”

People Ifs Way Wells War Taught Easier Iraq Afghanistan Taught Us Unpredictability

Author:Robert M. Gates

“I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”

Pay Attention Flying Pay Attention Planes Insanity Imperfection Unpredictability

Author:Tibor Kalman