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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.
You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.
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.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
I get quite a lot of people chatting to me online. Some of the messages do take me by surprise. They can be flattering.
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
I don't like to say. I like to just surprise people.
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
Every time something happens, whether I've won the most or lost the most, there's always 'oldest' tied to it. It's not a surprise anymore.
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.
To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.
I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.
A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.
I'm excited to bring in a new fan base for 'Charmed' and to surprise and shock the old ones as well - bridge the gap between both. Maybe I'll get some superpowers!
I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.
No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
As West Indians we have always been disrespected. As soon as we fight back they make it look like we are the bad one in the media. We've experienced these things over the years. So it's no surprise.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
I will do films that will satisfy me and surprise the audience into saying, 'look where Rajpal started from and where has he reached today.'
I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.
The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler
