Unexpected Quotes - Page 19

• Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

  Guy Finley

  Hurt, Philosophical, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 02, 2013

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• Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

  Roger Bannister

  Leadership, Sports, Running

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• My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Grateful, Coffee, Winter

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• The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

  Paul Brown

  Average, Numbers, People

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• Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Block, Humble

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• I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

  Alex Webb

  Photography, Waiting, Secret

  "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough". Interview with Kate Bubacz, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Photographer, Unexpected Things

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

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.

  Colin Fletcher

  Uplifting, Simple, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.849, Knopf

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• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Believe, Long, Next

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• Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

  Gary Talley

  Song, Differences, Sometimes

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Evil, Secret

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• There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Responsibility

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• Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

  Paul Zollo

  Writing, Simple, Keys

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• The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

  P. M. H. Atwater

  Light, People, Darkness

  P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.88, ARE Press

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• Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

  Lisa Jewell

  Strange, Form

  Lisa Jewell (2005). “Vince and Joy”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t think in terms of boundaries that limit what the market might do. If there is any lesson I have learned in the nearly twenty years that I’ve been in this business, it is that the unexpected and the impossible happen every now and then

  Richard Dennis

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Gifted Writers

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• When I was a teenager, I was like, Something is wrong with me. I dont fit in. Im not like everybody else. So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

  Noomi Rapace

  Teenager, Moving, Way

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• We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fate, Guy, Suffering

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• What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Girl, Past, Men

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• We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isn't creative on its own because it is programmed to behave in a predictable way. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Learning, Creativity, Creative

  The Corporate Board, Vol. 13, p. 30, 1992.

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• Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

  John McEnroe

  Tennis, Predictable

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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