Marissa Mayer Quotes

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

to hope was to expect

Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's next?" I think there's always going to be another mountain. I think there's something always in store.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

I wonder who is going to finish second.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

We won't know for a few years.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.