“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.” IfsWayDifferentRealityPainChoicesWishAcceptingEventsIllusionAll ThingsResponsibleSurpriseLabelsBarriersPeace And HappinessAccepting LifePain In Life Author:Kristine Carlson
“Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.” BigsPoliticalTurnsOpportunityEconomicMissingEventsDependsErrorsSurpriseFinancialAshamedClientsSay AnythingCumulativeOutlandishBig Surprises Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust
“It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, anytime there's any Twilight-related event or anything.” StillsFunDealsEventsHugeLowsSurpriseTerrorRelatedMassiveTwilightHighs And Lows Author:Robert Pattinson
“None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.” KnowsWaySpiritFaithEventsHeroSurprisePopulationHeroicCitizenshipSlumber Author:Vaclav Havel
“Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.” FirstsFacesFoundFeltKnownPathPlansAtheismEventsWindPercentClaimsSurprisePositive AtheismPostsRelySurvivorWarningKillersFaith In GodNew OrleansPollsImageryHurricanesCalculationsMuteSatellitesResidentsKatrinaBeneficence Book:Letter to a Christian Nation Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.” ThinkingGovernmentLosesRecordsEventsPolicySpringPerformancesUnionsSurpriseCaughtExpertsOwnersSovietCollapseClientsPhysiciansApologizingSoviet UnionBusiness OwnersBrokersPausingArab SpringMalpractice Author:Andrew Bacevich
“Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.” StoriesHandsForceEventsStrangeMouthsRedSurpriseDrivingUnexpectedCoincidenceUnlikelyNotebookStrange ThingsTrue StoryDriving Force Author:Paul Auster
“Given [Donald] Trump`s polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to speak off, it came as a surprise today that according to The Washington Post, Trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raising events, relying almost exclusively on online donations, which, of course, tend to be much smaller.” TodayCoursesGamesSpeakGivenEventsTrumpDollarsSurprisePostsOnlineFundAdsDeficitDonationReluctancePolling Author:Chris Hayes
“My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.” EventsSurpriseMy FavoriteNow And ThenSurprise Me Author:Jodi Picoult