33 Quotes About Predictability

It is a fact that most people follow rules and laws out of fear. When people fear the authority, there is discipline and everyone reaps the fruit of good law and order. When there is discipline, there is growth because there is security and predictability. When there is no fear, there is chaos and conflict.

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.

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

People are hard to predict. The same music which moves one person to tears has little or no effect on the other.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

History's kaleidoscope worked its permutations, its pace ever faster, approaching some unknown crescendo.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.