Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. — Heraclitus
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it. — Heraclitus
Always remain open to turns and surprises along the way. Welcome the unexpected. — Rick Rubin
Be open to and welcoming of unforeseen events because those unplanned moments are often the seeds of spectacular opportunities in your life. — Pat Flynn
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? — Bob Dylan
Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared. — Zhuge Liang
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
When you enter a fight, be prepared for anything—your opponent may surprise you with something unexpected. — Joe Rogan
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. — Erin Morgenstern
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. — Jason Silva
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen. — Wendell Berry
Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
Short Expect The Unexpected Quotes
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. — Simon Sinek
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. — Timothy Leary
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. — Henry Moore
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell
Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next. — Gwen Stefani
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell
At its best, life is completely unpredictable. — Christopher Walken
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. — English Proverbs
Expect The Unexpected Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Always Expect The Unexpected Quotes
Maintain a margin of safety. If your life is designed only to handle the expected challenges, then it will fall apart as soon as something unexpected happens to you. Always be stronger than you need to be. Leave room for the unexpected. — James Clear
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. — Norton Juster
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. — James Patterson
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected. — Jim Cramer
In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable — Roberto Di Matteo
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself. — Mark Cuban
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan. — David Dixon
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances. — Takeshi Kitano
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. — Helen Thomas
Never Expect The Unexpected Quotes
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey
All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice. — Patrick Swayze
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future. Chances are there will be some surprises and in the long run even the most expected of futures tends to arrive late and in completely unexpected ways. — Paul Saffo
Expect nothing, appreciate everything.
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect. — Alice Duer Miller
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton
Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always. — John Maynard Keynes
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. — Heraclitus
Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything. — Harry Houdini
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tuley
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. — Nicholas Sparks
Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. — Rick Riordan
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it. — Jack Handey
Life Is Unexpected Quotes
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. — C. S. Lewis
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.' — Sandra Bullock
Life is bound to deal you a few bad hands now and then. You don’t need to make a big deal out of every unexpected turn of events. Your path may be rerouted, but nothing is lost unless you decide to quit. Through it all, arm yourself with the right attitude. — Mo Gawdat
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. — C. S. Lewis
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities. — Edward O. Thorp
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. — D. H. Lawrence
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. — Colleen Hoover
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
Unexpected Events Quotes
Black Swan theory tells us that things happen that were previously thought to be impossible – or never thought of at all. — Chris Voss
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
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. — Mary Anne Radmacher
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Instead of trying to change another person's behavior, try changing the way you react. Acceptance without expectations is less stressful.
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. — Paul Auster
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. — Joshua Reynolds
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality. — Anagarika Govinda
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control. — T. S. Eliot
Unexpected Things Quotes
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. — Etty Hillesum
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible — Phil Collins
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong. — Lewis Howes
The first thing we ever filmed was, we had to eat off people's plates, like we just walked over and took something. We thought we would get punched. — Joe Gatto
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. — Joan D. Vinge
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
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. — Carl Sandburg
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. — Jason Schwartzman
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. — Bob Barker
The dream is realized where you do not expect it — Greek Proverbs
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. — Tom Robbins
The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources. — Brian Tracy
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways. — Richard Branson
Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways — Jane Green
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. — Oscar Wilde
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected. — Brad Bird
In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none. — Joan Rivers
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. — Lynda Barry
Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected. — Gary Busey
I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity — Shania Twain
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. — Jonah Hill
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. — Mark Twain
If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. — Heraclitus
I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness. — Buzz Aldrin
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected. — John Turner
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass. — Heraclitus
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas. — Michael Mina
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life. — Richard Bach
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored — Heraclitus
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. — Eli Khamarov
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question. — Gilles Duceppe
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you. — Marjorie M. Liu
Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. — Veronica Roth
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. — Hannah Arendt
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed. — Steven Knight
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