Gwen Stefani Quotes

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Life is a school of probability

A Westerner is someone who is aware of tomorrow, of it being definitely different from yesterday and accepts not knowing what the future will bring

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.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

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

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

You can't plan your future.

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

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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

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

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

You can't control everything that comes to you.

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

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.