Unanticipated Challenges Quotes

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

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

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate.

One generation's reform becomes the next generation's problem.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

There will always be days when we have to race to catch up to events we did not foresee, not because somebody is asleep at the switch, but because what’s going on is so complicated.

When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.

Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

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

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.

The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.