Lauren Gibbs Quotes

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

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 planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

My policy is to have no policy.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

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 don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

I do not believe in planning.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I'm kind of a crazy person.

No, I never planned my life.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

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.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.