Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.

Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Chance is a second master.

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

Luck is the grand equalizer.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

You have to make those mistakes. You have to do the work. You have to fail. I also realized that I should practice what I preach, which is that if you only do get one kick at the can . . . When you go to places like Africa or Asia or the Indian sub-continent, you realize that a lot of the people there don't ever get a kick at the can. There are no "kicks" at the can - you just don't have that shot.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.