Lauren Willig Quotes

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

Everything in my life was luck.

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

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Life is about timing.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Few people realize that luck is created.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.