Rebecca Solnit Quotes

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

Life is all about the unexpected.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I love when things don't go to plan.

No, I never planned my life.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

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.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Expect the unexpected.

Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.