P. T. Barnum

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

American Entertainer

Jason Silva

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.

American Director

Alain Badiou

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

French Philosopher

Luciana Berger

It looks like caring for the most vulnerable in our society could be yet another casualty of Brexit, with over-stretched and potentially unsafe care services and a reduction in female employment another unforeseen consequence.

British Politician

Tony Dungy

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

American Coach

Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

English Activist

Brian Greene

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

American Physicist

Quentin Crisp

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

English Writer

Raymond E. Feist

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

American Author

Stendhal

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

French Writer

Often implies inconvenience or a negative outcome that was not planned for.

Negative Emotion

Can also refer to positive surprises, like a beneficial event or opportunity.

Not Always Bad

Used in business or planning contexts to describe events that could not have been predicted.

Neutral Contexts

 involves a planetary-scale intervention. And we have to be very careful. I think that piles of stinking seaweed are probably going to be the least of our problems. There's other unforeseen things that will happen. One of the things that really worries me, when I talk about this, is the fate of biodiversity in the deep ocean.

Can seaweed help curb...

 carbon from the ocean and therefore buffer reduce ocean acidification and perhaps buffer the reefs you know that though we've got no idea about any of that but what we do know is that if we do this we really have to test any of those strategies that we put in place to make sure that there's no unforeseen

How does climate change...

 our demand for these things, not our need, our want, drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. And those calories are in foods that cause, not prevent, disease. Now global warming was unforeseen. We didn't know that pollution did more than cause bad visibility.

What's wrong with what...

 I filled it with fresh water and I added one drop of mercury. That would dilute down to one part per billion mercury, which is well within what the World Health Organization considers safe. But if there was any unforeseen drop in how much water was available --

We need to track the...

 he made a circuit of a trail, the sandwalk that he'd built behind his house. A productive path can be physical, like Darwin's, or a virtual one, or an unforeseen detour from a path we had laid out. Too much efficiency can weaken itself.

The paradox of...

 Professors explored students’ understanding of judicial reasoning by challenging them with unforeseen hypothetical situations. This approach is still used today by the Supreme Court to imagine the unintended impacts of passing a law.

This tool will help...

 After the war, it was routinely sprayed in wide swaths to fight pests, often with unforeseen results. One attempt to eradicate fire ants in the southern U.S. killed wildlife indiscriminately, but did little to eliminate the ants.

How one scientist took...

 This is a society that preys on their insecurities. Insecurities about how they are performing and how they are appearing to other people. This is a society that amplifies their imperfections. Every flaw, every unforeseen setback

Our dangerous obsession...

 We have to keep everything under control. Well, the unknown is part of life. And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor. Because in the balloon, like in life, we go very well in unforeseen directions.

Bertrand Piccard's...

 It reminds me that this process taught me to take risks. And I know that might sound incredibly ironic. But I took risks realizing that unforeseen opportunities often come from risk-taking --

Unforeseen

Negative Emotion

Not Always Bad

Neutral Contexts

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