Quotes About Unpredictability

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

Trends don't interest me.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

And even if we make good plans based on the best information available at the time and people do exactly what we plan, the effects of our actions may not be the ones we wanted because the environment is nonlinear and hence is fundamentally unpredictable. As time passes the situation will change, chance events will occur, other agents such as customers or competitors will take actions of their own, and we will find that what we do is only one factor among several which create a new situation.

At such a moment, the molecules have combined into a system that is self-organized. A phase change occurs. Something more than the sum of the parts has come into being. And . . . it just happens. Like water turning into ice. And you can't predict what the system will look like after the phase change. For

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Like snowflakes, no two fistfights are the same.

People are puzzles that way. We are complicated mechanisms. Just when you think that you have got a certain person all figured out they go and they change on you and you have to go and start that whole figuring-out process all over again from the beginning.

People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

Chaos doesn't mean that the system is behaving randomly, it means that it is unpredictable because it has many variables, it is too complex to measure, and even if it could be measured, theoretically the measurement cannot be done accurately and the tiniest inaccuracy would change the end result an enormous amount.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening.

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Da, ?ovjek je smrtan, ali to bi bilo tek pola nevolje. Zlo je u tome što je nejgova smrt katkada posve iznenadna, eto u ?emu je trik! I op?enito, on ne može re?i ?ak ni što ?e raditi danas nave?er.

El carácter único del YO se esconde precisamente en lo que hay de inimaginable en el hombre. Sólo somos capaces de imaginarnos lo que es igual en todas las personas, lo general. El YO individual es aquello que se diferencia de lo general, o sea lo que no puede ser adivinado y calculado de antemano, lo que en el otro es necesario descubrir, develar, conquistar.

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.