Predictable Quotes

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“... 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, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.”
― Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

“One-track mind easily predicted.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The suddenness of events sometimes highlights the absurdity of the consequences and proves that life does not always follow predictable patterns. We recognize that the "order” and “meaning" we want to impose on the world are often pointless or without effect. Be it as it may, let us find the silver bullet in the magic of every present moment we encounter to find compensation. ("C “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It wasn't an absolute of course. People were people, and they hated to be entirely predictable.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.”
― Randall Munroe

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.”
― Rhian J. Martin, A Different Familiar

“When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Dust

“Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“It always impressed me how predictable Reva was—she was like a character in a movie. Every emotional gesture was always right on cue.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“An even, straight path is attractive. Its predictable routine perpetuates with no extra effort required. It becomes autopilot that leads to endless same old thing.

An uneven, windy path is unavoidable to many. Its unforeseen, exciting adventures require balance, adjustment, alertness and attention. A path that leads to a rewarding dream of your life.”
― Miriam Hurdle, Songs of Heartstrings

“What were numbers other than abstract concepts we used to describe reality? I felt that using numbers to describe people was as silly as using technical language to describe spinach dip. Humans, I imagined, were not meant to be predictable, and if they were, nothing new or innovative would ever be accomplished.”
― N. Daniel, Corners Untouched by Madness: A Personal Journey of Overcoming Mental Illness

“In a world of the ordinary and predictable, be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Frequent action increases predictability.”
― Cristina Imre

“From the point of view of an inhabitant of the Old World, marsupials are exceedingly odd. But oddity is not the same as randomness. Kangaroos and wallabies may lack verisimilitude; but their improbability repeats itself and obeys recognizable laws. The same is true of the psychological creatures inhabiting the remoter regions of our minds. The experiences encountered under the influence of mescalin or deep hypnosis are certainly strange; but they are strange with a certain regularity, strange according to a pattern.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“A lot of blood,
A lot of dead people,
A lot of victims,
A lot of useless battles,
A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?

As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...”
― Deyth Banger

“He’s predictable when you know him,” she said, squeezing his hand. “Very predictable.”
― Avery Duff, Beach Lawyer

“Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“To be predictable is to become the hunted.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Predictability is a weakness.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“If you are a reasonably competent woman and know how to spot and avoid predictable snares. Like a fox that, no matter how hungry, avoids a baited trap which appears dangerous.”
― Catherine Huang, The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu's Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work

“Your sensual growth scares people who’s sense of security depends on your stagnation and predictability.”
― Lebo Grand

“You cannot decide to try any matter that even you are unsure about its clarity; the visible outlook may excite one to take the step to move forward that success is predictable.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Rituals are highly structured. They require rigidity (they must always be performed the –correct- way), repetition (the same actions performed again and again) and redundancy (they can go on for a long time). In other words, they are predictable. This predictability imposes order on the chaos of everyday life, which provides us with a sense of control over uncontrollable situations.”
― Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

“Romance novels, rom-coms, non-tragic love stories—they all run on a blissful sense that we’re moving toward something better. Percentage-wise, the majority of clues writers drop in romance novels don’t give you things to dread. They give you things to look forward to.

This, right here—more than anything else—is why people love them. The banter, the kissing, the tropes, even the spice … that’s all just extra.
It’s the structure—that “predictable” structure—that does it. Anticipating that you’re heading toward a happy ending lets you relax and look forward to better things ahead. And there’s a name for what you’re feeling when you do that.

Hope.

Sometimes I see people grasping for a better word than predictable to describe a romance. They’ll say, ‘It was predictable—but in a good way.’

I see what they’re going for. But I’m not sure it needs pointing out that over the course of a love story … people fell in love. I mean: Of course they did! I don’t think it’s possible to write a love story where the leads getting together at the end is a surprise. And even if it were, why would you want to? The anticipation—the blissful, delicious, oxytocin-laden, yearning-infused, building sense of anticipation—is the point. It’s the cocktail of emotions we all came there to feel.

I propose we stop using the hopelessly negative word predictable to talk about love stories and start using anticipation. As in: 'This love story really created a fantastic feeling of anticipation.'

Structurally, thematically, psychologically—love stories create hope and then use it as fuel. Two people meet—and then, over the course of three hundred pages, they move from alone to together. From closed to open. From judgy to understanding. From cruel to compassionate. From needy to fulfilled. From ignored to seen. From misunderstood to appreciated. From lost to found. Predictably.

That’s not a mistake. That’s a guarantee of the genre: Things will get better. And you, the reader, get to be there for it.

It’s a gift the love story gives you.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger