Quotes About Predictable

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Many businesses . . . become highly skilled at using algorithms to produce outcomes that are reliable, that is, consistent and predictable. . . . Companies that devote all their resources to reliability lack the tools to pursue outcomes that are valid, that is, that produce a desired result.

God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.

todo el mundo se ha acostumbrado a que las personalidades se expresen en los medios sobre los temas más variados y a que por lo general digan cosas previsibles, y ya nadie les presta verdadera atención;

The suburbs are a scary place. I'm glad I live in New York City, where crime is more predictable.

Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.

This has always been the temptation of the people of God--to tame him. He increases mystery; we desire to remove it. He introduces paradox; we seek to solve it. We, like the Israelites before us, want a God who is understandable and predictable and safe.

Evil is predictable.' A lie. Because sometimes evil was an insidious thief that crept in and stole what you most treasured, leaving only echoes against a wall. A thin shadow, swinging almost gently. Like on a swing.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Because consumption comes from three sources: income, savings, and borrowings. Stating the obvious, income comes only from income. Our point? FairTax opponents will tell you that the consumption base, the base for national sales tax, isn't stable and can't be trusted—but in reality it's the income tax base that's unstable and can't be trusted. The consumption base is much more predictable.

We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless-a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

Normal is a universe that is predictable and trustworthy.

Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever always abated, given time and management, leaving the luckier among them with scars where love had been.

Borderlines may need to feel in control of other people because they feel so out of control with themselves. In addition, they may be trying to make their own world more predictable and manageable. People with BPD may unconsciously try to control others by putting them in no-win situations, creating chaos that no one else can figure out, or accusing others of trying to control them.

Borderlines may need to feel in control of other people because they feel so out of control with themselves. In addition, they may be trying to make their own world more predictable and manageable.

We want desperately to take uncertainty out of the future. But when we take uncertainty out, it is no longer the future. It is the present projected forward. Nothing new can come from the desire for a predictable tomorrow. The only way to make tomorrow predictable is to make it just like today. In fact, what distinguishes the future is its unpredictability and mystery.