Top 1200 Element Of Surprise Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
There is a pop element to what I do, but I'm going for a deeper, more left-of-center vibe. That's the sound I've always been looking for.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
Repeal of the individual AMT has been a fundamental element of Republican tax reform campaign promises for years.
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.
I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.
I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it's off, it will mess with your mechanics.
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
When you get lots of players up front, sometimes a counter-attack can take you by surprise and lead to a chance for the opposition.
Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
