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The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. Shigeru Miyamoto

People, Video Games, New, Games, Obvious

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Baltasar Gracian

Day, People, Talent, Expectations, You

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. Tariq Ramadan

History, Diversity, Rich, Country, Land

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. Henry B. Eyring

Gratitude, Gift, Anger, Generosity, Hurt

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thoughts, Long, Reunion, Separation

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation. Maria Montessori

Age, Man, Feeling, Satisfaction, Being

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Jean Cocteau

Habit, True, Seeing, Us, Realism, Things

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. Dries van Noten

Ugly, Things, Which, Prefer

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. John Langdon

Science, Words, Design, Language, Create

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results. Jake Sullivan

People, Imperfection, Choices, Results

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. Bill Gates

Good, Business, World, Ideas, Windows

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. Mary Shelley

Women, Look, Way, Minds, Begin, Much

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin. Niccolo Paganini

Performance, Devil, Audience, Playing

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling. Karen Horney

Women, Experience, Men, Motherhood, Long

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. Phil Collins

Hate, People, Me, Sorry, Mean, Happen

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

Nothing, More, Many, Than, Few, Which

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. Junot Diaz

Love, Generation, Diet, Fall, Born, Up

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. Tom Hiddleston

Yourself, Mind, Dream, Never, Audience

People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser. Ada Yonath

People, Me, Hair, Haircut, Free, Tell

Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family. Rick Smolan

Family, Eyes, Friends And Family, Tears

It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral. Fabrizio Moreira

Positive, Business, Small Business, More

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. E. W. Howe

Respect, Man, World, Things, Worthless

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. Tony Snow

Thankful, Power, Wealth, Liberty, Thanks

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. Howard Hodgkin

Me, Painting, Finish, Looks, Else

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all. Niall Ferguson

People, End, Retirement, House, Buying

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think. David Attenborough

Eyes, I Am, Amazing, Think, Evolution

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