Wanda Jackson Quotes

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

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.

I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

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

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Nothing was planned in my career.

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

I never planned to become a choreographer. I never planned to become an actor. I never planned to be a director. It's all good will. I did nothing.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.