We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.
Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.
We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.
I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.
Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.
My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.
Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.
It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.
...maximize the serendipity around you.
What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those.
You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.
I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.
My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.
I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
