#predictability

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. ↗

— Diet Eman

#no-regrets #surrender #unpredictability-of-life #diet

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-gracefully #growing-older #predictability #age

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#people #predictability #surprise #art

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#life #stories #uncertainty #unpredictability #change

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#unpredictability #dreams

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#mice-men #planning #plans #unpredictability #men

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#life

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer. ↗

— David Tudor

#become #completely #find #observer #possible

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments. ↗

— Randy West

#because #days #exciting #game #game show

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#getting #i #into #know #like