Jack McCollough Quotes

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

You can't plan your future.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

At any given moment, we each face a barrage of obligations, often disparate and distinct from what we thought would happen when we woke up. From the tragic to the common to the extraordinary, life refuses to be divvied up into careful slices of time. No technology can manage to overcome the realities of reality.

You never know what happens a few years down the line.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

No, I never planned my life.

I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.