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Surprise is what happens when you’re looking the other way. It can be
wonderful and it can be devastating. So pin your ears back and get ready
for the things for which you can never fully prepare. And when surprise
happens, notice it and ask why, because your subconscious may just given
you a clue to some new thing.
See also
discovery, emergence, exploration, risk*, subconscious, unpredictability*
Quotes
‘It is not the surprises in life that are so debilitating. The truly crushing
force is being surprised that you are surprised .’
— Darryl Conner
‘No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the
unexpected success.’
— Peter F. Drucker
‘Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the
capacity of wondering, of being surprised . They feel they ought to know
everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled
by anything.’
— Erich Fromm
‘Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised
by change.’
— Thomas Hardy
‘The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself.’
— Robert Henri
‘If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to
be reached by search or trail.’
— Heraclitus
‘If it’s surprising, it’s useful .’
— Tom Hirshfield
‘Ideally, I’d like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises
would be endless.’
— Keith Jarrett
‘Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.’
— George S. Patton
‘Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and
unusual phenomena.’
— Herbert Simon
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