I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.
Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.
I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
