Spiritual stagnation ensues when
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man’s environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. Eric Hoffer
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Spiritual stagnation ensues when man’s environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. Eric Hoffer
When I read the scripts, I’m always so excited to see what’s going to happen because it’s unpredictable. Emmy Rossum
In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are … Read more
Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins. Ellie Kemper
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. Ella Leya
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking. Elizabeth Bowen
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true Freeman Dyson
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It’s somewhat like liquid water–unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways. Freeman Dyson
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of … Read more
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn’t even explain it. Frederick Lenz