Peter Beard Quotes

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

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

No, I never planned my life.

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.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

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

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.

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

My life has never been a part of a big plan. It's more of an unfolding adventure.

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

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

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.