Quotes About Unpredictability

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

they would ride hell-for-leather part-way around the circle before seeking cover. They circled clockwise and counterclockwise. There was no rhyme or reason to it, an unpredictability that worked to their advantage.

one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.

But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

football clubs could, at times, be heartless and calculating and weren't to be relied on, unless you wanted your heart broken.

My wife says [parenting] is a test of your capacity to deal with disorder and unpredictability -- a test you can't study for, and one whose results aren't always reassuring.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

We cannot generalise anything in life. We cannot say media people are like this, film people are like this, or doctors are like this.

I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.

I hate to plan my life.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

I have never planned my life.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

Nothing was planned in my career.

I have never really planned anything in my life.

I never planned anything in my life.

I don't spend time planning each move in my career.

I am not a person who plans things in advance.