William Easterly Quotes

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

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.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I try not to plan that too much.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I don't plan massively in advance.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

My policy is to have no policy.