#predictability

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

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

— Katherine Heigl

#getting #i #into #know #like

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. ↗

— Rand Paul

#business #check #cut #giving #needs

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#amaze #best #fail #me #never

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#being #clearly #company #even #growth

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#i #like #sets #sitting #unpredictability

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

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