Unanticipated Outcomes Quotes

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

People don’t know what they want until they see it.

You don't want to institutionalize the excesses required to meet extraordinary threats. The law just can't anticipate all the contingencies.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

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

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth is, he never stopped speaking.

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

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

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

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

Humans tend to underestimate the risks that stem from their behavior and overestimate those that are involuntary, including low level exposure to substances in the enviornment.

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

One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.

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

We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.

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.

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.