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• Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

  Bill Bradley

  Creativity, Imagination, Intuition

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• Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.

  Suzy Kassem

  Art, Moon, Journey

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• Darkness is so predictable.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Darkness

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  Gail Sheehy

  Change, Unnecessary, Deny

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Loyalty, Grateful

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• It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Night, Thinking

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• I never want anything to be too predictable.

  Mindy Grossman

  Want

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

  Clay Shirky

  Revolution, Ifs

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• The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Reactions, Subtle

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.35, Middleway Press

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• Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

  Phil Donahue

  Men, Quiet, Wonder

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Way, Ifs

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Perspective, Long, Identity

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• Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

  Ted Dekker

  Evil, Expected

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

  Robert Greene

  Way, Critics, Behave

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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• An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get that intervening sense of guilt, that pang of conscience, on account of it. So they tend to know what's wrong or right, they just don't care. That's another thing that they can use against us: that we do care. We're predictable in that.

  Martha Stout

  Intelligent, People, Guilt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

  Hannah Arendt

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept 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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• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

  Joan Didion

  Events, Matter, Aging

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.134, Vintage

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• Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

  Lauren Conrad

  Real, Scripts, Life Is

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• In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

  Eoin Colfer (2007). “Half Moon Investigations”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Conclusion

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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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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• 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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