#surprise

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything ↗

— Charles Dickens

#surprise #experience

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#approach #comes #doing #i #idea

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan. ↗

— Hidetoshi Nakata

#europe #everyone #find #how #i

Surprises can be compelling. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#surprises

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#go #i #material #matter #me

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ↗

— Alice Walker

#live #nothing #surprise

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#bad #companies #even #extent #good

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before. ↗

— Peter Wright

#back #before #best #best way #class

Well, we all like things to be predictable, don't we? We expect things to be safe and to keep on happening just the way they always have. We expect the sun to rise in the morning. We expect to get up, survive the day and finish up back in bed at the end of it, ready to start all over again the next day. But maybe that's just a trick we play on ourselves, our way of making life seem ordinary. Because the truth is, life is so extraordinary that for most of hte time we can't bring ourselves to look at it. It's too bright and it hurts our eyes. The fact of the matter is that nothing is ever certain. But most people never find that out until the ground suddenly disappears from beneath their feet. ↗

— Steve Voake

#surprises #life

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#surprise #love