Quotes about Unpredictability

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. Votes: 8

Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability. Votes: 6

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have. Votes: 6

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. Votes: 6

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer. Votes: 6

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. Votes: 6

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing. Votes: 6

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it. Votes: 6

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence. Votes: 6

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. Votes: 6

The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea. Votes: 6

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. Votes: 4

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability. Votes: 4

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity. Votes: 4

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. Votes: 4

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. Votes: 4

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY Votes: 4

There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow. Votes: 4

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over Votes: 4

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. Votes: 4

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason. Votes: 4

If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability. Votes: 4

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them. Votes: 4

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! Votes: 3

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. Votes: 3

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. Votes: 2

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. Votes: 2

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability. Votes: 2

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability. Votes: 2

Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty. Votes: 2

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way. Votes: 2

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments. Votes: 2

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff. Votes: 2

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.' Votes: 2

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. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. Votes: 2

Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Votes: 0

Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability." Votes: 0

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God. Votes: 0

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today. Votes: 0

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. Votes: 0

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability. Votes: 0

I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc. Votes: 0

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. Votes: 0

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. Votes: 0

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability. Votes: 0

Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times. Votes: 0

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country. Votes: 0

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally. Votes: 0

A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables. Votes: 0

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon. Votes: 0