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Quotes About Predictability

Meatloaf has never quite risen above its name. It offers comfort and predictability, but rarely fireworks.
~ Chris Morocco
I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.
~ Katherine Heigl
To deliver predictability, we have partnered with Biotique for in-room toiletries, Airtel for Wi-Fi and DTH, and small laundromats in cities to provide clean linen in our rooms.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.
~ Kemp Muhl
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
~ Chet Atkins
Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.
~ Ali Krieger
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
~ Annette Funicello
I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.
~ Dean Kamen
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.
~ Gaspar Noe
The minute you can be predicted, as a brand, you've got a problem.
~ Jonathan Anderson
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
~ Bob McDonnell
You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.
~ Robert C. Martin
Ward's principle: "You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.
~ Robert C. Martin
Honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts. Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think. More important, by being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions.
~ Robert Greene
By being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions.
~ Robert Greene
Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think. More important, by being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect
~ Robert Greene
In another study subjects waited an unknown length of time to receive a shock.12 This lack of predictability and control was so aversive that many chose to receive a stronger shock immediately. And
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Injustice becomes a matter of uncertainty, justice a matter of contractual predictability. Redistribution plays a minor part in his social philosophy, and then only as part of the machinery of macroeconomic stabilization, not as a means to an ideal goal such as equality.
~ Robert Skidelsky
What is known for certain is dull.
~ Max Perutz
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
~ Camille Paglia
Had [Shakespeare] put into the mouths of his heroes only prophecies that were later confirmed, he would have made a case for the total predictability of history. The false prophets are there for a purpose; they testify to the unpredictability of the historical future.
~ Ágnes Heller
Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.
~ Derren Victor Brown
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver