Michael Stuhlbarg Quotes

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

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

Life is all about the unexpected.

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

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

Always stay open to surprise.

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.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

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

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

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

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

Often the most unexpected, unpredictable moments in life are the ones that leave the biggest impression and that teach us to roll with the punches.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.