In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of…

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider…

— Raoul Bott

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept…

— Paul Halmos

“It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.”

— Toni Morrison

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

— Richard Bach

“Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.”

— Daniel Wallock

“The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse…

— Alice Steinbach

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

— Loren Eiseley

A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty,…

— Clark Moustakas

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion…

— Toni Morrison

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great…

— Douglas Booth

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or…

— Rowan Williams

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

— Freya Stark