Predictable Quotes

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.