“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up.… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different. — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next-… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
Apple does magical things, but it does magical things that are a combination of a product, a service, a system, and an… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
