Unplanned Results Quotes

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Unintended Consequences

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

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.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

In every one of my scientific expeditions, the most significant findings were things I didn’t expect and was not originally what we were studying.

I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.