Elif Batuman Quotes

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

A Westerner is someone who is aware of tomorrow, of it being definitely different from yesterday and accepts not knowing what the future will bring

I've learned never to say never.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

Just because something is not happening to you doesn't mean that it never will.

I don't prepare to sit on the bench, I prepare to play because you never know what is going to happen.

Every time I thought I've seen every possible scenario, something else comes up. You just have to be prepared at every level.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

Things always change and you can't ever say never, because you don't know what is around the corner.

All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

You never know what could happen.

But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don't. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.