Predictable Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

  Chet Atkins

  Music, Thrive

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• He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

  Sid Waddell

  Speed, Wasps

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• You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Action, Responsible, Consequence

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.287, The New Press

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• Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

  Carl Rogers

  Health, Behavior, Unpredictable

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• Success is predictable.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Self Reliance

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.1, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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• A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Predictions

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• One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

  Martin Fowler

  Danger, Process, Bigs

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• Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

  John Anthony West

  Ideas, Mind, World

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• Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Science, Thinking

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• We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

  Harriet Lerner

  Patterns, Steps, Persons

  Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

  Hannah Arendt

  Future, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Ignorance, Fighting, Men

  'Four Essays on Liberty' (1969) 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'

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• The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Needs, Behavior, Certain

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• When the world is predictable you need smart people.
  When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Smart, People, Needs

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• The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Greed, Investing

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Risk, Hanging On

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.68, Crown Business

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• Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.10, New World Library

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• To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Past, Men, Giving

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

  Mark Lawrence

  Sacrifice, Weak, Pins

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.66, Penguin

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• In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Listening, World, Shifting

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Giving, Way

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• I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.

  Ron Paul

  Phones, Government, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden Is A Ron Paul Supporter" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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