Tony Finau Quotes

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Life is full of surprises.

Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

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

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Life has many twists and turns.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too