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  • When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

    Men   Boulders   Needs  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4576, e-artnow
  • Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

  • Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

    Records   Bob   Firsts  
  • Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

    Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.100, Pearson Education
  • 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.

    Girl   Sex   Loneliness  
    John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”
  • I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

    Francis Bacon (1983). “フランシス・ベーコン”
  • Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

  • Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

  • Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

    Life   Change   Goodbye  
    Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
  • The only Trump constant seems to be his unpredictability. America lives in a state of constant turmoil. There were those who thought maybe that would calm down when he became president, but what has happened is that the pressures of the presidency have actually exaggerated those tendencies.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Playing villains is very liberating because unlike the leading man, nothing is expected of you. Leading men have to look good, they have to behave in a certain way, they have to fulfill an audience's expectations. But as a bad guy, you have free license to take the audience by surprise. And that's what audiences want - they want unpredictability from their villains. The villain's job is to subvert it.

    Men   Expectations   Guy  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

  • I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

    Art   Thinking   Trying  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.

    Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.1, Multnomah
  • Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

    Character   Half   Firsts  
    Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
  • But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

  • Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  • Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

  • The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

  • The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

    Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press
  • The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

    Men   Forgiving   Promise  
  • The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

  • ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

    Life   Religious   Horse  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam
  • There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

    Feet   Snow   Four  
  • A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables.

    Simple   Pages   Limits  
    Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
  • Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

    Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.7, Crown Business
  • One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

    Lying   Long   Historical  
    Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.393, W. W. Norton & Company
  • It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

    Ideas   Waiting   Painful  
  • We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

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