Quotes About Predictability

#1. I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#2. When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

Keith Rabois

#3. 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.

Judith Guest

#4. Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it.

Esther Perel

#5. We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Bob McDonnell

#6. The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Jessamyn West

#7. An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#8. If a system is chaotic (most are), then it implies that however good the resolving power may be, the time over which the system is predictable is limited. Perfect predictability is not achievable, simply because we are limited in our resolving power.

Leonard Susskind

#9. Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. even if there were events before the big bang, one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward, because predictability would break down at the big bang.

Stephen Hawking

#11. While the allure of safety and predictability is strong, achieving true balance means engaging in activities whose outcomes and payoffs are not yet apparent. The

Ed Catmull

#12. It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.

Jeremy Rifkin

#13. I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

T. Boone Pickens

#14. 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.

Camille Paglia

#15. We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be.

Allan Dare Pearce

#16. Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

Sherry Argov

#17. It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about the stars. In a way, they are almost comforting.

Carl Sagan

#18. Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Ali Shaw

#19. Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

CeeLo Green

#20. I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Gretchen Rubin

#21. Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe.

Carol Shields

#22. Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

Mark Pincus

#23. Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

Raheel Farooq

#24. Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

Vinnie Jones

#25. No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Hugh Mackay

#26. The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

Saul Bellow

#27. Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

David Agus

#28. Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Rand Paul

#29. 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.

Nicholas Sparks

#30. No technique is possible when men are free ... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

Jacques Ellul

#31. We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

Billy Beane

#32. 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.

David Brooks

#33. Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

Bill Jensen

#34. I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite
I like spectators to be disturbed.

Louis Malle

#35. 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.

Marlon Brando

#36. 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

#37. Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Therese Fowler

#38. We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Esther Perel

#39. Predictability and great design are not friends.

Fred Brooks

#40. 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.

Sonia Sotomayor

#41. You miss predictability even if that predictability would've killed you, either by his hand or yours.

Pepper Winters

#42. I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

Scarlett Thomas

#43. Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.

Robert James Waller

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

Diane Ackerman

#45. There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

Louise Doughty

#46. While we all need external structure in our lives - some degree of predictability, routine, organization - those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Edward M. Hallowell

#47. God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

Andy Stanley

#48. 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?

Charles R. Schwab

#49. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.

Lois Lowry

#50. The sky was grey, the colour of predictability like a bland dish with no salt.

Elise Icten

#51. A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!

Evinda Lepins

#52. 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.

Joseph Brodsky

#53. The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

Warren Buffett

#54. I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

Nick Bantock

#55. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.

Gavin G. Smith

#56. The thing is, I like rules. They make me feel safe. The predictability of my boring life makes everything make sense. I guess that makes me a freak but I'm okay with that. You get to a certain point and you just realize there's no use in trying to pretend you're normal.

Amy Reed

#57. The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

David Nevins

#58. Systems provides the necessary predictability, which continuous increase demands for

Sunday Adelaja

#59. My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.

Ransom Riggs

#60. The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

Billy Beane

#61. Predictability brings about security.

Magda Gerber

#62. Make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#63. 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.

Eric Hoffer

#64. In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

William J. Clinton

#65. 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.

John Updike

#66. She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.

Glen Duncan

#67. Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Leo Buscaglia

#68. Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?

Arnold Mandel

#69. The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Lucy Liu

#70. I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

Katherine Heigl

#71. Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Walter Kirn

#72. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Victoria Moran

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

Nicholas Sparks

#74. (As Plato There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

Rebecca Goldstein

#75. You can only be unpredictable once.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#76. In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#77. It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

Walter De La Mare

#78. Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

Sun Tzu

#79. Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening

Jean G. Boulton

#80. Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Mark Lawrence

#81. Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

Nate Silver

#82. Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Joan Didion

#83. The future is certain. It is just not known.

Johnny Rich

#84. Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

Brad Meltzer

#85. Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.

Craig D. Lounsbrough