We are never prepared for what we expect.
More Quotes from James Albert Michener:
Dont put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.James Albert Michener
No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.
James Albert Michener
... Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured England wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed ... old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved ... At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change against change in the abstract is folly.
James Albert Michener
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
James Albert Michener
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