Unpredictable Quotes - page 4

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty. (Sharon Tate)
I know what it is. I know why my other relationships didn't work out, 'cause I'm unpredictable. Why are you afraid of it? View quote
Ruslana Korshunova
It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. View quote
Takeshi Kitano
Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world. View quote
Richelle Mead
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. View quote
Tom Stoppard
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. View quote
Aaron Sorkin
The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable. View quote
Stanley Fish
Is this the conduct of a ‘sly and unpredictable villain'?” "Decidedly so, if the villain, for the purposes of his joke, thinks to simulate the altruist.” "Then how will you know villain from altruist?” Cugel shrugged. "It is not an important distinction. View quote
Jack Vance
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. The Marxian error is a simple blunder in logical typing, a confusion of individual with class. (Gregory Bateson)
Like all bureaucrats, he was bewildered by an unpredictable development. View quote
Robert Silverberg
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. View quote
Thomas Moore
Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried. View quote
Larry Niven
Jennifer Lawrence is an incredible person and the most unpredictable person you will ever meet. You never know what she's going to say and why she's saying it. She's extremely fun to work with her and obviously perfect for Katniss. View quote
Liam Hemsworth
Dickerson watched the telephone like a man looking at a sleeping cobra. It could spring into virulent life at any moment, bite him with its hollow fangs, flood his system with the intellectual equivalent of poison, force him to leave the tried-and-true path of safe routine and jump into the dangerous and unpredictable unknown. View quote
Robert Sheckley
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong. View quote
Francis Collins
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. View quote
Ken MacLeod
[T]he human reason discovers new relations between things not by deduction, but by that unpredictable blend of speculation and insight... induction, which-like other forms of imagination-cannot be formalized. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse. View quote
George Monbiot
You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is - Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events. (Andy Grove)
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. View quote
Christopher Alexander
Racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic. View quote
Idi Amin
Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details. View quote
Erik Naggum