Kenneth Oppel Quotes

You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

Life is all about the unexpected.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

I always say expect the unexpected!

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

I always expect unexpected challenges.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.