Unpredictable Quotes - Page 2

• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Understanding, Principles

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Unexpected

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• When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Environmental, Strikes

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Dangerous, Humans, Inscrutable

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

  Brian Tracy

  Faster, Knows

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• Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Beautiful, Spring, Earthquakes

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.22, Trinity University Press

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• Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Heart, Games

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• You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Happy Life, Next, Moments

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  Bear Grylls

  Doe, Stuff, Expecting

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Aug 18, 2015

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• If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Funny, Fickle, Erratic

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• The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

  Spike Jonze

  People, Scary, Emotion

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• We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Mean, Thinking, Anomalies

  Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

  Rick Warren

  Ministry, Facts, Fame

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• After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Loss, World, Cups

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• The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Rugby

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• The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Quirky, Pathways, Evolution

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• Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

  Garth Brooks

  Future, Choices, Made

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• A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

  Rudy Rucker

  Long, World, Littles

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• I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, Realizing, Life Is

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

  Hillary Clinton

  Waiting, Trying, World

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Everything is unpredictable once you are inside the ring.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Rings

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Dumb, Screw Ups

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

  Anthony Marra

  Moments, Loveliness

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