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  • Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

    Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.20, Hachette UK
  • Predictability and great design are not friends.

  • Predictability would also seem to inspire confidence that a President [Donald] Trump would refrain from deciding to respond with overwhelming force when he is in a negative spiral and out of patience with a country or terrorist organization that is challenging the U.S., which he may interpret as mounting a challenge to himself personally.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

    Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.207, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.

    Workout   Class   Clothes  
    "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

  • If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

    Life   Flavor   Ifs  
    "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 80), 1963.
  • There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives. It's not as if there are these big, giant institutions existing between us and the economy. In fact, these institutions have become tissue-thin. There is no mediation anymore. We are the economy; the economy is us.

    Source: www.strategy-business.com
  • Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

    Cutting   Giving   Needs  
  • I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

    "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.
  • Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

    Running   Play   Ontario  
  • Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

    Moving   Growth   Company  
  • Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

    Mean   Power   Men  
    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Predictability brings about security.

  • 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   Fields  
    "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.
  • When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.

    Strong   Thinking   Views  
  • Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

    Moving   Loss   Order  
    Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.242, Penguin
  • One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability. You may have a terrorist incident or you may have a revisionist regime like the Iranians, but on the whole, the region is twenty countries. On the whole, you go to bed and you wake up and you have a pretty good idea that most of those twenty are doing just fine, you don't have to pay attention to them. There's some stuff going on but you don't have to worry about a governmental overthrow that will suddenly force you to evacuate your embassies.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

    Horse   Fun   Average  
  • Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

    Ghouls   Safety   Usual  
    Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage
  • Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

    Sex   Night   Light  
  • Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

    Self   Law   People  
    "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.
  • The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

    Crazy   Winning   Space  
    "Less Than One: Selected Essays". p. 28. Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1986.
  • The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

    Military   Gun   Men  
  • Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

  • No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

    Chaos   Stability   Crave  
  • It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

    People   Trying   Add  
  • I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

    Twitter post from May 29, 2012
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