“The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.” FirstsFactsHappensTodayFormCommonAttitudeAcceptingHappenedSpecialPhilosophicalRegardSurpriseProfoundYesterdayOccasionsPrimariesFeaturesEncountersDistinguishedAstonishment Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.” ThinkingKnowsInspirationalJoyWonderHappenedInspirational LifeSurpriseWise Man Once SaidLive And LearnYou Think You KnowJoy Of Learning Author:Rajneesh
“Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.” TalkingRolesHappenedMarkSurpriseIgnorantQualifiedZoologist Book:Last Chance To See Source: Last Chance To See
“This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.” KindHappenedBaseballSurpriseNflUnexpectedNba Author:Carl Crawford
“Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?” PeopleMenDiesPartyHappenedSurpriseOffensiveUnclesPearlsHarborsMassacres50th BirthdayBirthday Party Author:Christopher Titus
“I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.” PeopleMomentsStoriesHappensHappenedOrdinarySurpriseIntimateAggressionScandalOutrageousLots Of Friends Author:Claudia Rankine
“Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.” FirstsMeanPersonsDoeEndsStoriesGuyCoursesHappenedMiddleSceneInnovationSurpriseEvolveFirst PersonNarratorsBeginning Middle And End Author:T.C. Boyle