A Quote by Brian Aldiss
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.
But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the recipe for "happiness" for the human race, and what has generally been decided counts as "progress." People arrive at a different understanding of happiness, however fragile it is. They find it in unexpected ways, in the most unexpected of places.
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.
I've found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.
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