Claude Chabrol Quotes

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

In professional sports, things can change quickly. You keep your balance. You keep your perspective, and things will work out.