Charles Francis Richter Quotes

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

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

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.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

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

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

We usually get what we anticipate.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

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

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.