Quotes About Unpredictability

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

Every lap is different.

One of the things we're really proud of is that every single task is different, even if there are similarities. You never know what's coming up next.

Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

The unpredictability of not having their needs met in a timely, judicious fashion was not only frightening, it was potentially life-threatening.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

This law applies not only to war but to everyday situations. People are always trying to read the motives behind your actions and to use your predictability against you. Throw in a completely inexplicable move and you put them on the defensive. Because they do not understand you, they are unnerved, and in such a state you can easily intimidate them.

A warning: Unpredictability can work against you sometimes, especially if you are in a subordinate position. There are times when it is better to let people feel comfortable and settled around you than to disturb them. Too much unpredictability will be seen as a sign of indecisiveness, or even of some more serious psychic problem. Patterns are powerful, and you can terrify people by disrupting them. Such power should only be used judiciously.

When you no longer surprise anyone, you give others the impression that they have found you out. Turn the tables: be deliberately unpredictable.

circumstances never repeat themselves exactly.

No plan of battle survives first contact

A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.

Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

The world is strange, and all things change.

Never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricane he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that, once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." I

Never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricane he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that, once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible…and good? What would we find to talk about?

You can never tell about those Yankees!