Random Events Quotes

#1. We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Given the unattainability of perfect robustness, we need a mechanism by which the system regenerates itself continuously by using, rather than suffering from, random events, unpredictable shocks, stressors, and volatility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Steven Redhead

#6. In the end, each life is no more than the
sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own
lack of purpose.

Paul Auster

#7. Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

Steven Popkes

#8. There are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

J.G. Ballard

#10. Stories gave shape to Achimwene's life. Narratives gave a series of random events meaning. And so he shaped this, too, as a story.

Lavie Tidhar

#11. What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go?

Jo Nesbo

#12. I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

Alan Greenspan

#13. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

Dan Chaon

#15. Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Leonard Mlodinow

#16. Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

Oswald Chambers

#17. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

Patrick Ness

#18. If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

Ralph Marston

#19. The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Henri Nouwen

#20. Random events often look like nonrandom events, and in interpreting human affairs we must take care not to confuse the two.

Leonard Mlodinow

#21. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic insanity, random events in a dying universe.

William S. Burroughs

#23. There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia

Neal Shusterman

#24. Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Justin Cronin

#25. With all of those events, I didn't realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I'm saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.

Anne Frasier

#26. Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

William Zinsser

#27. Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.

Tony Jeary

#28. Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.

April Mae Monterrosa

#29. events that occur at random will seem to come in clusters, because it would take a nonrandom process to space them out.

Steven Pinker

#30. Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

Hamza Yusuf

#31. When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint.

Deepak Chopra

#32. if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.

Leonard Mlodinow

#33. A random sequence of seemingly unrelated events.

David Mitchell

#34. Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.

Donna Leon

#35. Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.

Alan Lightman