Alexander Wang Quotes

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

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

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

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

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

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

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

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

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

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.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

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

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

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

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

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

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

I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.