John McGinn Quotes

You can't count on things happening if you're not in control of them happening.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

I want everything, but I can say I have a lot of goals and I have a lot of wishes, but it doesn't depend on me. If everything depends on me, I am doing it. Sometimes it just depends on how everything is going to go.

We always want to keep a clean sheet, but there are situations we can't control.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Fate is for losers.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

There's only so much you can control in life.

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.