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• No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

  Wayne Shorter

  Deals, Know How, Knows

  "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered " with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

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• To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Advantage, Available

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• Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Encounters, Significant

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• All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

  Irwin Schiff

  Opportunity, Government, Political

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  Aaron Klug

  Plans

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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Assets

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Metamorphosis, Chemist

  "Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics". Book by Mauro Dardo, p. 69, 2004.

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• Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

  Paul Theroux

  Now And Then, Traveler, Happens

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• It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Values

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.620, Modern Library

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

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• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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• Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?

  Nichole Nordeman

  Might, Knows, Wraps

  Song: Be Born In Me

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• On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view

  Hideki Tojo

  Army, Views, Would Be

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• Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Creativity, Creative

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

  Danny Elfman

  Wall, Moving, Ideas

  "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Long, Combination, Dangerous

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• The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

  Bob Barker

  Usa, Missing, Pageant

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• An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Careers, Benefits, Biochemistry

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• I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

  Ann M. Martin

  Horse, School, Independent

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• I've never feared the unexpected.

  Kate Voegele

  Never Fear

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Tired, Would Be, Stories

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