Element Of Surprise Quotes

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Judging, Looks

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Inspiration, Elements

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• If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Games, Elements

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• I think its one of the great principles. The element of surprise, I mean, you could take a force that's not nearly as strong and with the element of surprise you could wipe out a much more powerful force.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

  "Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group". www.yahoo.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

  Geena Davis

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.

  Daniel Lanois

  Elements, Surprise, New Things

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• When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

  Sun Bin

  Elements, Tactics, Surprise

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• the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Our World, Doe

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• I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

  Charlize Theron

  Trying, Elements, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Jul 22, 2013

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• I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Successful, Would Be, Elements

  "Aishwarya Rai's post-baby body forces India to confront its attitude to women" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Elements, Surprise, Lost

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• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  Sam Claflin

  Ideas, Knowing, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

  Charles Morgan

  Love, Godly, Men

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• When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

  Sergio Leone

  Frustrated, Cinema, Elements

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• Can there be allowed - are we allowed to have any more in the military, General, the element of surprise? You know, I would think it would be a good thing. It's called an ancient strength and we don't use it anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Thinking, Use

  Source: time.com

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• There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

  Jenna Coleman

  Elements, Tvs, Surprise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Elements, Tables, Surprise

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• Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Fun, Party

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.84, Zondervan

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• I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Elements, May

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• This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.

  E. M. Forster

  Queens, Marching On, Appreciate

  "Aspects Of the Novel".

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• I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.

  Gail Levin

  Writing, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  Alan Kay

  Art, Jobs, Laughter

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Fighting, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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