Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
I got into a car accident and couldn't play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it's panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.
Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!
I never hid my move to Real Madrid was almost done... my fate changed, and I arrived at Barcelona instead.
It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.
I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
I'm not moving to L.A.! That's not happening unless I have to.
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school and after one year I got a part in a soap opera in Stockholm. It's called 'Rederiet.'
I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.
I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
I'm grateful for my time in New England. It taught me a lot. It just didn't gel out how I wanted.
TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.
The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.
I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.
Then I was actually meant to be going home but for some reason I decided to extend for a week. Then on the final day by extension, finally an audition came through, and it was 'Into the Badlands'.
I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.