Quotes About Predictability

Players like routines. They like to know what they're doing in the week and in training.

I love routines and love having something to look forward to.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

A DJ is nice and secure to have where there's a set playlist that you can kind of create yourself and then you know for sure what you're going to get.

Si ya no dependen tantas cosas de la política, entonces es lógico esperar que se debilite no solo la voluntad de votar sino también el compromiso de los que siguen participando. Las opciones probablemente serán más volubles y más susceptibles de basarse en factores cortoplacistas. En la práctica esto también significa que los resultados electorales serán cada vez menos predecibles.

Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.

A shared narrative future -- as expressed in such statements as Yes, I'll come to the picnic next Friday -- defines socially shared predictability of behavior. Prolonged contact with the enemy teaches that predictability is fatal . Being unpredictable is a basic survival skill in combat, where the enemy is ever observant. Many of the veterans in our program take different routes to the clinic every time they come.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

When you're a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

The big-ticket hardware folks invest the capital, take all the risks—which are huge—suffer the losses and the write-downs, and then let somebody else capture the business that has predictability, lower price sensitivity, higher margins, recurring revenue, and the opportunity to create an ongoing customer relationship, because the frequency of purchase is ten times greater than the frequency of the initial transaction. "So

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

When predictability is poor—which it is in most of the studies reviewed by Meehl and his followers—inconsistency is destructive of any predictive validity.

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.

Why should jokes and metaphors give such pleasure? Because we can't stand very much ambiguity. Cognitive dissonance makes us uneasy, and for good reason-survival depends on making the world as predictable as possible. So when we figure something out, when we impose order on what seems chaotic, we heave a psychological sigh of relief.

I find it so helpful," continued Lymond, "when some of my gentlemen have well-defined codes of conduct. It makes them more predictable.

You use reassurance, combined with pressure and release, to gentle the horse. You go slow. No surprises. Predictability and repetition.

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.