Fred Wilson Quotes

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

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

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

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.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

Bollywood was never on my to-do list. It just happened.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.