David Kay Quotes

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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.

[Explaining a failed policy:] Our crystal ball was very muddy.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.