Quotes About Surprise

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

Evidently this safety is completely false; no one can control anything, and a change always appears at the moment one least expects it, taking us surprise and with no chance to react or fight.

When things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable.

I remember the many occasions on which help has come from people whom I though had nothing to add to my life.

We are our own greatest surprise.

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.

Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Surprise is key in all art.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.