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• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

  Timbaland

  Style, Something Unexpected

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• The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

  James Ensor

  Mean, Expression, Color

  Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

  Ellie Kemper

  Veins, Los Angeles, Unpredictable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

  Paul Lester Wiener

  Work, Offering, Creating

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• Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Trying, Use, Elements

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Age, Events

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• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

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• Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Leadership, Fate, Flames

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Thinking, Quality

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• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

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• There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.

  Rose Tremain

  Moving, Way, Moments

  Rose Tremain (1995). “Sacred Country”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

  Denise Mina

  Writing, Political, Stories

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• The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

  Venerable Bede

  Mother, Inspiration, Surrender

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• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Writing, Comfort

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• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

  Jamais Cascio

  Goal, Survival, Resilience

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• Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

  T. E. D. Klein

  World, Chill, Language

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

  Robert Bresson

  Provoking

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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• He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

  Heraclitus

  Doe, Unexplored

  Heraclitus (1981). “The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.

  Farrah Gray

  Way

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• All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

  Allen Lacy

  Creativity, Garden, Imagination

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