Top 88 Too Predictable Quotes
#1. Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
Barbara Broccoli
#3. THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.
Jonathan Franzen
#5. We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.
Norman Doidge
#6. Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.
Sam Walton
#7. If she's too predictable because you talk about the relationship all the time instead of going out and having one, he'll get bored quickly.
Sherry Argov
#8. You and I should do whatever we can to keep our youthful joy alive. If your life is too predictable, don't go postal. Take a ridiculous ride back to whatever it was that gave you joy as a child. Jump on a trampoline. Saddle up a pony. Give adulthood a rest.
Nick Vujicic
#10. I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
Neil Marshall
#11. Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!
T.D. Jakes
#12. Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why
Yuval Noah Harari
#13. To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
Annette Funicello
#14. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.
Pat Williams
#15. It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way ... the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?
Stephenie Meyer
#16. I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
Greg Gutfeld
#17. Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
Steve McConnell
#18. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys - there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It's so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.
Mae Brussell
#19. Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.
Monty Roberts
#20. A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.
James Patterson
#21. Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.
Ruth Ozeki
#22. What had happened wasn't supposed to have happened and yet, they still rendered the predictable media spin of potential squandered, the gift of education sacrificed to the allure of thug life, etc. Not only simplistic, but also offensively so.
Jeff Hobbs
#23. Waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.
Susan Ee
#24. This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.
Paul Castellano
#25. Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.
Rhian J. Martin
#26. Ultimately, nobody is predictable, least of all to himself ... there wouldn't be any point in writing fiction otherwise.
Jincy Willett
#27. The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.
Donald J. Trump
#28. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
#29. Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First,
Kenley Davidson
#30. Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.
Andrea Tantaros
#31. But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.
Penelope Lively
#32. Decapitation is faster and more predictable than death by hanging, lethal injection, electric shock or gassing, but the spectacle is too grim for our sensibilities.
Frances Larson
#33. Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.
Emily Mortimer
#35. I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
Frans De Waal
#36. Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to be easily predictable.
Tana French
#37. The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.
Lewis Thomas
#38. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
Noam Chomsky
#39. I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.
Rick Moody
#40. I tried that too,' said Laurent. 'I don't like to think of myself as predictable. But apparently I cycle through all the normal responses. Shall I tell you what you're going to do when I stick the knife in for the first time?
C.S. Pacat
#41. Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.
Ken Hill
#42. Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and the next minute a moose is floating past you wearing a fishing hat and ladies' pajamas.
Doreen Cronin
#43. It doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. I always feel a bit defeated when I have to follow up with "I love you too". It's like the sequel to a film: I Love You and I Love You Too. You know the second one's always going to be a predictable reworking of the first.
James Hannah
#44. The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
Terry Eagleton
#45. A lot of blood,
A lot of dead people,
A lot of victims,
A lot of useless battles,
A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?
As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...
Deyth Banger
#46. But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.
Dennis Lehane
#47. I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.
Warren Buffett
#48. One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
George R R Martin
#49. It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.
Chris Crutcher
#50. How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.
Gillian Flynn
#51. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.
Kip Tindell
#52. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.
Michael Kirby
#53. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.
Robert Ardrey
#54. Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.
Peter Lynch
#55. Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
Craig Venter
#56. When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to do.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#57. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
Daniel Kahneman
#58. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting
Jennifer Senior
#59. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
#60. It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.
Donna VanLiere
#61. If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.
June Jordan
#63. The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.
Colleen Gleason
#64. We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.
Donald Tusk
#65. In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.
Stella Young
#66. Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.
Karen Hawkins
#67. Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Keir Dullea
#68. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
#69. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.
Deepa Mehta
#70. I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
Maureen Corrigan
#71. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new. Sometimes disasters make me feel that way.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#72. 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.
Lang Leav
#73. To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.
Becky Chambers
#74. The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
William S. Burroughs
#75. Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.
John Gray
#76. Once we get predictable, we get vulnerable.
Deyth Banger
#77. Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
Nate Silver
#78. If it's a revolution it can't be predictable. And if it's predictable it can't be a revolution.
Clay Shirky
#79. Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.
Carrie Snyder
#80. Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.
Alex Steffen
#81. Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.
Anne Rice
#82. At one time or another, we all stand at the crossroads and at the fork in the road.We can go back where it's comfortable, predictable and easy. Or we can go forward. If you go back, my friend, you will miss the ride of your life!
Donna Schultz
#83. Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.
Max McKeown
#84. So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A company called Predictable???
Really???
Deyth Banger
#85. When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.
Sunday Adelaja
#86. Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
Chellie Pingree
#87. Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.
Douglas Preston
#88. This is a book for anyone undertaking an adventure and leaving behind a life that has been familiar, comfortable, and predictable.
Devin Brown
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