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• Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Process, Interpretation

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• I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

  Deepa Mehta

  Drama, Hate, Years

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• Embrace opportunities with limited downside, unlimited upside. The best deals are those where your risk of loss is predictable and fixed if things go wrong, while your potential gains are enormous if things go right. Take such deals whenever you can get them if the odds of success are halfway decent.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Loss, Opportunity

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• Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

  Barbara M. White

  Trust, Building, Process

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• We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isn't creative on its own because it is programmed to behave in a predictable way. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Learning, Creativity, Creative

  The Corporate Board, Vol. 13, p. 30, 1992.

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• ...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

  James Roby

  Teaching, Learning, Class

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• 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".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Typical, Comedy

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Astra Taylor

  Wind, People, Giving

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

  David Nevins

  Character, Rich, Shows

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• 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

  Fun, Guarantees, Heuristics

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.12, Pearson Education

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• The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.

  J. Bowyer Bell

  War, Historical, Path

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• Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

  Minor White

  Photography, Responsibility, Skills

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• In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.

  Carly Fiorina

  Animal, Different, Bullfighting

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• The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

  Fred Ritchin

  Form, Primitive, Repetitive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Iphone, Outsiders, Made

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• I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.

  Alex Timbers

  Thinking, Careers, Eras

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• A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Mirrors, Achievement

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• Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

  Kate Millett

  Mind, Madness, Wonderful

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• Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Ideas, Parent

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• 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

  Sorry, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

  Jason Lytle

  Stupid, Silly, Animal

  Source: www.spin.com

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• They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Individual Differences

  "The Obliging Order: William F. Buckley’s War on Totalitarianism and Blandness" by Thomas F. Bertonneau, www.firstprinciplesjournal.com. Fall 2008.

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• Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Believe, Years, Important

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• Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Pool Table, Way

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Space, Brain

  "Economics and Ecology". Book by Kenneth Boulding, p. 225, 1966.

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