Steven Erikson Quotes

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

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

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

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

The future is inherently uncertain.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

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.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

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

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.