Joshua Reynolds Quotes

No, I never planned my life.

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

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

Life is all about the unexpected.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

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.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

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.

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

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

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

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.

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.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.