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• I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.

  Jordana Brewster

  Routine

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

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would compromise our nation’s qualitative edge when it comes to national defense. It is well known that weakness invites aggression. Threats do not always announce themselves in advance. In order to prepare for unpredictable threats, we must modernize our defense systems. We certainly cannot let them age and deteriorate.

  Doug Lamborn

  Government, Order, Support

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• Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Flower, Law

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• The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

  Matt Ridley

  Lying, Behaviour, Gaps

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• There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers who created great art, but never moved to the third eye. And there have been mystics who have remained with the third eye, knowing their own inner beauty; it is so fulfilling that they thought they had arrived. Somebody is needed to tell you that there is still something more ahead; otherwise, in your ignorance, what you will do is almost unpredictable.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Ignorance

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• The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

  Cesar Milstein

  Success, Nature, Cutting

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• Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance is going to be destroyed.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Reality, Balance, Destroyed

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• The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

  John Seely Brown

  Innovation, Important, Culture

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• A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

  Seth Klarman

  Errors, Safety, Luck

  "Here's an explanation of Ben Graham's concept of 'margin of safety'". www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2016.

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• God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.11, BookBaby

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• I've done so many unpredictable things and so profoundly. Even the people who want to go against me, are afraid to go against me. They've been wrong so many times. A lot of them are just being mum right now. They must feel I can still do things.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Unpredictable Things, People, Work Out

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• War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

  Kate Forsyth

  Running, Dog, War

  Kate Forsyth (2002). “The Fathomless Caves: Book Six of the Witches of Eileanan”, p.131, Penguin

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• Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Mean, Animal, Vegas

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

  Christian Bale

  People, Want, Kind

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• Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

  Robin Cousins

  Stars, Athlete, Skating

  "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.

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• My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Father, Winter, Ice

  Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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• Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

  Stuart Chase

  Average, Organization, Important

  Stuart Chase (1948). “The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations”, New York : Harper

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• The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Agendas, Tao, Planning

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• ...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Real, Different

  "The Story of Art". Book by Ernst Gombrich, 1950.

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• Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

  Eric Ries

  Mean, Unpredictable Things, Innovation

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.31, Crown Business

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