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«Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.»
Author: Alfred A. Montapert
(Author)
| Keywords:
affections, animals, grateful, live up to, loyal, predictable, reliable, standards
«I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin - different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business»
«In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because instead of trying something new, the bull returns to what is familiar. His comfort zone.»
Author: Carly Fiorina
| Keywords:
bull, bullfight, bullfighting, Bull Ring, comfort zone, continues, familiar, more and more, predictable, returns, ring, spot, term, The Animal, The Ring, The Spot, threatened, zone, zones
«A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
anxious, for instance, inconsistencies, inconsistency, instance, orderly, predictable, rhythm, routine, unfairness, unsafe
«I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.»
«If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
cease, flavor, flavored, flavors, predictable
«Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
avoided, cause of death, celebration, celebrations, dreaded, integral, integral part, issue, modern society, natural causes, predictable, The Celebration, unspeakable
«Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation»
Author: Gail Sheehy
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplice, accomplices, predictable, unnecessary, vegetation
«Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Commitment,
Future
| Keywords:
extent, humanly, ordering, orderings, predictable, promises, reliable, uniquely
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