Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

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

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

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

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

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

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

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.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

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

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

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

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

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

Having overthrown this one devil, we might be facing seven new devils .

It is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies.

… 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.

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.