Unforeseen Benefits Quotes

Strictly has been such a gift. It is so much more than I thought it was going to be.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it. A novel or short story might be useful to a reader in all kinds of ways, many of which no writer would ever foresee, which is a good thing.

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.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.