Quotes About Unexpected

The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I got married, and it was a bit of a whirlwind I wasn't expecting for the next phase for Penn and I.

My debut was all a bit of a whirlwind.

I can whistle really loudly. You know the two-fingered whistle? That. People are usually really surprised that I can do it.

I never thought I'd be covering the White House. I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN. And I never thought I'd be covering the White House for CNN while Donald Trump was president.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.

I never planned my career in the film industry, in acting. Yes, I always liked acting, but never ever I thought it would be my profession. I wanted to study, since my family has an academic background.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.