John McSheehy Quotes

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Man plans, but God decides.

No one can defy fate.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

I think the future takes care of itself.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.