#unexpected

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#first-rate #his #hurry #keeps #late

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. ↗

— John Tukey

#focus #graphical #numerical #quantities #unexpected

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#associated #i #joy #lift #moment

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#birth #came #child #house #more

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. ↗

— John Locke

#discourses #frequently #learned #men #more

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. ↗

— James Purefoy

#big fan #fan #i #like #patterns

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#i #looking #never #seen #things

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

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I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#apart #change #come #else #expect