Unplanned Events Quotes

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

I'm trying to leave more of my calendar open for the spontaneous things. A lot of fun stuff that happened in previous years were things that were like, 'Hey are you available next week?' I wasn't really open unless it was planned months in advance. I'm excited to play it by ear and let a lot of stuff happen as it happens.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Being spontaneous is a blessing.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.

Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.