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«The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.»
«Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ardently, gained, objects, pursue, sources, unexpected
«Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man»
«The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.»
Author: Robert Doisneau
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
arrange, director, marvels, movie, unexpected
«The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
compulsive, dangers, frantically, obsessive, safety, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, The Search, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unmanageable
«Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accident, automatic, destroys, For Better or Worse, frame, occurrences, pattern, prediction, predictions, procedures, processes, projection, projections, unexpected
«There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
discourses, frequently, The Discourses, unexpected
«There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
| Keywords:
experiment, experimented, experimenting, experiments, failed, outcomes, unexpected
«Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.»
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
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