Quotes About Being Predictable

#1. I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for. - Author: Andrew Buchan

#2. Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable. - Author: Jonathan Zittrain

#3. India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas. - Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#4. I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it. - Author: Joanna Gaines

#5. I hate being predictable." "I believe they call that classy. - Author: Ariel Lawhon

#6. The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. - Author: Mason Cooley

#7. I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it. - Author: Rodney Dangerfield

#8. You are a guest of nature - behave. - Author: Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#9. In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation. - Author: Adam Gopnik

#10. The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles. - Author: Michael Mandelbaum

#11. 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". - Author: Isla Fisher

#12. Be abnormal; being normal is too predictable for your brand. - Author: Bernard Kelvin Clive

#13. In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself. - Author: Pattiann Rogers

#14. 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. - Author: Astra Taylor

#15. Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions. - Author: Donna Farhi

#16. I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize. - Author: Neal H. Moritz

#17. Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves. - Author: Mary McCarthy

#18. I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up. - Author: Sandra Brown

#19. Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. - Author: Lao-Tzu

#20. I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable. - Author: Sheridan Smith

#21. 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. - Author: James Hollis

#22. When reading a book, one hopes it doesn't turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is grab a hatchet, slice off its head, and bury it. - Author: Chila Woychik

#23. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated - Author: Mike Krzyzewski

#24. Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#25. At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement. - Author: Hillary Clinton

#26. Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. - Author: John Clute

#27. And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I've changed. - Author: Lang Leav

#28. Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. - Author: Thomas Sowell

#29. Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that. - Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#30. 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. - Author: Lucas Neff

#31. 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. - Author: Magda Gerber

#32. I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring. - Author: Carrie Brownstein

#33. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable. - Author: Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#34. One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable. - Author: Taylor Swift