Quotes About Unexpected

The best relationships are the ones you never saw coming

surprise it's better than promises

it's unexpected pain brings change in a person's life. this change brings slowly transformation in same person

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Cuando llegó la oportunidad, apareció de una forma diferente, y desde una dirección distinta que Barnes había esperado. Ese es uno de los trucos de la oportunidad. Tiene la costumbre de colarse por la puerta de atrás, y suele venir disfrazada en forma de desgracia o derrota temporal. Tal vez por eso

You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be reasonable if you prove willing to go beyond just verbiage. You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

We flipped a coin to see who was going to pay for the meal. I lost and paid. He was about to thank me when he abruptly stopped and said that he paid for half of it probabilistically.

we are effectively not skilled at intuitively gauging the impact of the improbable, such

our misunderstanding of the Black Swan can be largely attributed to our using System 1, i.e., narratives

after the event you start predicting the possibility of other outliers happening locally, that is, in the process you were just surprised by, but not elsewhere. After

the wealthiest are to be found among those less suspected to be wealthy.

narrated Black Swans, those that are present in the current discourse and that you are likely to hear about on television, and

positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

what you see is likely to be less Black Swannish than what you do not see.

Remember that for an event to be a Black Swan, it does not just have to be rare, or just wild; it has to be unexpected, has to lie outside our tunnel of possibilities. You must be a sucker for it.

This same point can be generalized to life: maximize the serendipity around you.