The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
I don't really think too far ahead, usually.
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.
Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
Theories and grand ideas are important, but they seldom unfold as planned.
No, I never planned my life.
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.
I don't make long-term plans, for sure.
When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.
That order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive.
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.
