Unpredictable Quotes - Page 2

• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Understanding, Principles

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Unexpected

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• When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Environmental, Strikes

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• Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Dangerous, Humans, Inscrutable

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

  Brian Tracy

  Faster, Knows

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• Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Beautiful, Spring, Earthquakes

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.22, Trinity University Press

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• Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Heart, Games

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• You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Happy Life, Next, Moments

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  Bear Grylls

  Doe, Stuff, Expecting

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Aug 18, 2015

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• If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Funny, Fickle, Erratic

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• The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

  Spike Jonze

  People, Scary, Emotion

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• We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Mean, Thinking, Anomalies

  Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

  Rick Warren

  Ministry, Facts, Fame

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• The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Rugby

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• After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Loss, World, Cups

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• The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Quirky, Pathways, Evolution

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• Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

  Garth Brooks

  Future, Choices, Made

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• The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

  Neil Armstrong

  Men, Important, Principles

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• Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

  Sarah Dessen

  Best Love, Sweet Love, Love Is

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• Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

  Anthony Marra

  Moments, Loveliness

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• Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

  Ben Bernanke

  Thinking, Years, Imagination

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Dumb, Screw Ups

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Complicated, Cradle, Machinery

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

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