Quotes About Predictability

Look at Jennifer Aniston: She's America's sweetheart for a reason. You know what she's going to look like when she shows up to something, and there's something so comfortable about that.

If instead you allow the times of your child's feedings, playtimes, baths, and other activities to change constantly, chances are his sleep will become irregular as well.

I cannot think of a culture in human history, before the present postmodern era, that did not value law, tradition, custom, authority, boundaries, and morality of some clear sort. These containers give us the necessary security, continuity, predictability, impulse control, and ego structure that we need, before the chaos of real life shows up.

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how DEADLY monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals.

The known is always the easiest. It's comfortable.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Children love consistency... they love knowing what's going to happen.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.

It appears that some domesticated primates, over the aeons, have not precisely evolved but have learned how to criticize and examine their own neurological programs. Members of this group cannot be mechanically predicted. They exhibit, at times at least, what looks like growth or creativity, although it is possible for Fundamentalist Materialists to insist that this "is really random behavior or behavior whose determinants had not yet been understood.

There is nothing original about human behavior.

People were fundamentally predictable. If you stopped expecting them to surprise you, they couldn't disappoint.

Nate seemed to live in a world where unpredictable things didn't happen.

The foreseeability of the world out there varies in systematic ways for systematic reasons.

A well worn path is the most comfortable to follow." Andreas Simic

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.