“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.” KnowsSaidSometimesKnow HowTakenExampleInternetHappeningsOkayYeahStrategySurpriseDeeperListsPrioritiesFasterPhenomenonSpellsFifth Author:Bill Gates
“My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.” TryingChildrenNightPassionSoundSpaceEmotionBehindsImpossiblePaintingHappeningsSurprisePaintRingsBarsBreastsLionsScreamTigersRocketsChunks Author:Karel Appel
“The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.” ArtDreamCreatingHappeningsLogicSurpriseClimax Author:Susan Sontag
“I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.” BelieveSometimesSpiritualI BelieveHappeningsSurpriseI Believe InThings HappenMundane Author:Rae Morris
“I can sit and list off all the things that are being worked on and all the things that are on the table, but that will take away all the surprises that are going to come. There are so many explosive, exciting things that are happening. Everybody that is in my life and in my world now has something to do with what I do.” WorldI CanHappeningsExcitingTablesSurpriseListsExplosivesExciting Things Author:Shane Bunting
“I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.” ThinkingKnowsNextAudienceElementsHappeningsSurpriseGet Ahead Author:Jason Graae
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.” WayFilmDesireCreativeDoorsNew YorkTelevisionTvsHappeningsIndependentSurpriseArtisticIndependent Film Author:Aja Naomi King
“Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.” UseUnderstandingExampleHappeningsConsequenceInstrumentsSurpriseUnusualAnticipationGreat Writers Author:Roger Rosenblatt