Blake Edwards Quotes

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.

You never know how times will change in where you are in your life.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

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

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.