Unplanned Paths Quotes

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

In life, all things have come to me as a surprise and I didn't have any plans to do films. So let's see how it goes.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more an accident than a plan.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.