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4. “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
E.M. Forster
Uncertainty, Unpredictability, Rehearsal, Spontaneity, Preparation, Authenticity
7. “That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.” Sylvia Plath Independence, Freedom, Adventure, Unpredictability, Self-expression, Passion
11. “Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.” Robert Greene Psychological Strategy, Leadership Secrecy, Manipulation Awareness, Influence Game, Strategy Control, Unpredictability
12. “His moves intrigued her, each of them keeping her waiting for the next one – she even enjoyed her jealousy and confusion, for sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.” Robert Greene Leadership Strategy, Psychological Intrigue, Emotional Awareness, Influence Game, Leadership Presence, Unpredictability
13. “Be like vapor. Do not give your opponents anything solid to attack; watch as they exhaust themselves pursuing you, trying to cope with your elusiveness. Only formlessness allows you to truly surprise your enemies – by the time they figure out where you are and what you are up to, it is too late.” Robert Greene Strategic Elusiveness, Psychological Warfare, Unpredictability, Defense Strategy, Leadership Agility, Stealth
14. “Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.” Robert Greene Complex Systems, Chain Reaction Insight, Strategic Thinking, Psychology Exploration, Unpredictability, Adaptability
16. “She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Emotional Complexity, Passionate Love, Inner Fury, Relationships, Unpredictability, Storm
20. “Modern systems, Perrow argues, are made up of thousands of parts, all of which interrelate in ways that are impossible to anticipate. Given that complexity, he says, it is almost inevitable that some combinations of minor failures will eventually amount to something catastrophic.” Malcolm Gladwell Complexity, Systems, Unpredictability, Catastrophe, Interconnection
Unpredictability Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
E.M. Forster Uncertainty, Unpredictability, Rehearsal, Spontaneity, Preparation, Authenticity
7. “That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
Sylvia Plath Independence, Freedom, Adventure, Unpredictability, Self-expression, Passion
11. “Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.”
Robert Greene Psychological Strategy, Leadership Secrecy, Manipulation Awareness, Influence Game, Strategy Control, Unpredictability
12. “His moves intrigued her, each of them keeping her waiting for the next one – she even enjoyed her jealousy and confusion, for sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.”
Robert Greene Leadership Strategy, Psychological Intrigue, Emotional Awareness, Influence Game, Leadership Presence, Unpredictability
13. “Be like vapor. Do not give your opponents anything solid to attack; watch as they exhaust themselves pursuing you, trying to cope with your elusiveness. Only formlessness allows you to truly surprise your enemies – by the time they figure out where you are and what you are up to, it is too late.”
Robert Greene Strategic Elusiveness, Psychological Warfare, Unpredictability, Defense Strategy, Leadership Agility, Stealth
14. “Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.”
Robert Greene Complex Systems, Chain Reaction Insight, Strategic Thinking, Psychology Exploration, Unpredictability, Adaptability
16. “She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Emotional Complexity, Passionate Love, Inner Fury, Relationships, Unpredictability, Storm
20. “Modern systems, Perrow argues, are made up of thousands of parts, all of which interrelate in ways that are impossible to anticipate. Given that complexity, he says, it is almost inevitable that some combinations of minor failures will eventually amount to something catastrophic.”
Malcolm Gladwell Complexity, Systems, Unpredictability, Catastrophe, Interconnection
