Portia Doubleday

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards.

American Actress

Hope Jahren

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.

American Scientist

Nancy Grace

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

American Journalist

Jocko Willink

Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

American

Scarlett Johansson

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

Sian Clifford

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

English Actress

Fergus Henderson

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

English Chef

Sajid Khan

It's true that friendships in the film industry are fickle but that holds true for life in general.

James Howard Kunstler

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

American Author

Mason Cooley

American Writer

Fickle often implies negative judgment, used for criticizing inconsistency or unreliability.

Emotional Impact

Sometimes 'fickle' describes positive flexibility, adapting easily to change.

Not Always Negative

Fickle often refers to people, but may also describe the weather, luck, or inanimate objects.

Human vs Non-Human

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 Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle. Management teams seem increasingly disconnected from their staff. A recent survey said that 27 percent of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm. However, in the same survey, only four percent

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 So far, we can only control a few qubits in the same place at the same time. There are two key components involved in managing these fickle quantum states the types of particles a quantum computer uses, and how it manipulates those particles.

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 but a fickle population, easily manipulated by whoever can get the most air time. So what's the solution? There are a lot of things we have to do. We need curriculum reform. We need our best and brightest encouraged to become teachers.

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 sheltered in the woods from the fickle weather Jim can easily lose sense of time under a tree like this he had his first encounter with one of the rarest and shyest creatures of the pine forest

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Fickle

Changing often and unexpectedly, not consistent or loyal.

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