Eric Bana Quotes

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

No, I never planned my life.

You can't plan your future.

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

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

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.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

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

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I've never had a plan for the future.

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

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

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I never had a long-term plan.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

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

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.