Predictability Quotes

• Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

  Simon Sinek

  Facts, Plans, According To Plan

  Twitter post from Jul 07, 2009

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• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Flavor, Ifs

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 80), 1963.

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• 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

  Education, Struggle, Kids

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• Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

  Vinnie Jones

  Stupidity, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

  Katherine Heigl

  Knows

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• God does not play dice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Max Born, 4 Dec. 1926, in Einstein und Born Briefwechsel (1969) p. 130 (often quoted as Gott wrfelt nicht God does not play dice, e.g. in B. Hoffmann Albert Einstein (1973) ch. 10)

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• Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mistake, Play, Stronger

  "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

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

  David Agus

  Body, Body Love

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• No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

  Hugh Mackay

  Chaos, Stability, Crave

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• I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Business, Believe, Failure

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Passion, Comfort, Impossible

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Predictability brings about security.

  Magda Gerber

  Security

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• The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

  Carl Sagan

  Force, Regularity, Universe

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Love, Passion, Essence

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• Predictability can lead to failure.

  T. Boone Pickens

  T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.59, Crown Business

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• 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

  People, Trying, Add

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• 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

  Art, Levels, Fields

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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• 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

  Cutting, Giving, Needs

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

  Andy Stanley

  Order, Honor, Planning

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• Predictability and great design are not friends.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Not Friends, Great Design

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• The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Taken, Views, Confusion

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

  Louis Malle

  Thinking, Opposites, Disturbed

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• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

  Carl Sagan

  Everyday, Events, Degrees

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, People

  "Novelist Khaled Hosseini". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

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• I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Dumb, Challenges

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.31, Crown

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