Best Surprise Wisdom

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To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with… — Serge Lutens
When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time… — Gichin Funakoshi
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the… — Unknown Author
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires… — Taylor Mali
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even… — Rajneesh
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried… — Andrew Mason
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change… — Stanislaw Ulam
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste… — Ben Okri
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… — Ben Okri
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise. — Alison Lurie
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting,… — Ray Bradbury
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So… — Woody Allen
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure… — George W. S. Trow
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It… — V.S. Naipaul
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. — Horace
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the… — Sol LeWitt
Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there… — Wesley Clark
I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody! — Glenn Beck
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life. — Rabindranath Tagore
Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough… — Melina Marchetta
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further… — Emile M. Cioran

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