Unpredictability Quotes

• The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

  Paul Auster

  Unpredictable Things, World, Want

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• 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.

  Tibor Kalman

  Imperfection, Insanity, Flying

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• 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.

  Joel Edgerton

  Hard Work, Thinking, Fiction

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.

  Marion Winik

  Life, Dark, Confusing

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• 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.

  Lewis Thomas

  Past, Agency, Interesting

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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

  Ronnie James Dio

  People, Failing, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Generosity, Example

  "Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jon Landau

  Records, Bob, Firsts

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• 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.

  David Tudor

  Accepting, Situation, Observers

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• Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Monotonous

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

  Agnes Allen

  Work, Easier, Murphys Law

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• We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Flying, Planes

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Taught Us, Iraq

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• 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.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Mistake, Iraq

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• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiving, Done, Redemption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

  John Motson

  Soccer, Winning, Looks

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• I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Cities, Years

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Patterns, Shows, Clear

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• Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Spiritual, Maturity, Comfortable

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

  Sarah Newton

  Educational, Parent, Tests

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Facts, Affair

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

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• Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Related

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• Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

  Les Brown

  Live Life, Procrastination, Mean

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