Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

You never know what can happen in football and in life.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

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.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.