Quotes About Predictable

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

Despair demands less of us, it's more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this world—and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable.

A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.

Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.

Aaron always maintained that genre writers were formulaic, predictable and had no respect for Craft. And romance was the least appealing of all the genres. Why bother reading a book when you knew what the outcome would be?

It's always sad when someone dies of a cliché.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

...I suppose clichés wouldn't be clichés if they weren't based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.

All through her childhood, Sarah had known what food she would eat. Friday was chicken. Wednesday lamb chops. That was the meat. Tuesdays meant fish, and Thursdays egg salad and potato latkes. Only Monday was unpredictable.

Y además es tonto, y eso le hace aún más peligroso, porque siempre puedes prever cómo va a reaccionar un canalla, pero no un estúpido.

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.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.

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

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.