Hirohito Quotes

… 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.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Theories and grand ideas are important, but they seldom unfold as planned.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

When you plan something, it never works.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

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

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.