Unintentional Success Quotes

I didn't intend to become an actor.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Error itself may be happy chance.

When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Everything that's happened to me is happening very organically. It's nothing that we paying for, nothing that we asking for.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

There is absolutely no planning and strategising involved in my career graph.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

It's just a coincidence that I've scored two headers. I'm not a specialist scoring headed goals.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

I think I'm one of those actors who has come around the backside of something, you know? I came in the backdoor without even realizing that that's what I was doing.

The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.