Alain Prost Quotes

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

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

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

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

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.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

I came prepared to treat with a regular government and have had to do with a mob and mob leaders.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

Reality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon man’s conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.