Jon M. Chu Quotes

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

For me, everything has always been an accident.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

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

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

Nothing was planned in my career.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Is anything accidental?

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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