Skip to content

Awareness Quote by Fay Weldon

“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.” quote by Fay Weldon — Download Open image

“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.”

About This Quote

Source Novel: “The Life and Loves of a She‑Devil”, 1983

Predictability breeds stagnation; unexpected actions are needed for change.

In simple terms: Doing nothing leads to nothing new.

Key Takeaway

Introduce surprise to break routine.

Themes

change unexpected stagnation creativity

Mood

motivational reflective inspirational

Type

advice literary

When to use this quote

personal growth
career planning
creative projects

Key Concepts

psychology behavioral science

Questions to Reflect On

How can you safely introduce novelty?
What unexpected step could you take today?

A Different Perspective

Unexpected actions can cause risk.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Awareness Happens Hope Hopeful Ifs Inspirational Life Love Trying Unexpected Unexpected Happens Unexpected Unexpected

More by Fay Weldon

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

Image

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they…

Image

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

Image

“If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.”

Image

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

Image

“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when…

Image

“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their…

Image

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

Image

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Image

“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.”

Image

“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime…

Image

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Image

Explore all 140 Fay Weldon quotes

More Awareness quotes

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

Image

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot…

Chogyam Trungpa

Image

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a…

Image

“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s…

Image

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

Image

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

Image

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

Jonathan Tropper

Image

“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

Image

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Linda Evangelista

Image

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s…

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Image

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

Image

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

Image

Browse all 4,447 Awareness quotes