Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I would probably buy the iPhone5 if it kept me from drunk dialing my exes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters. — Aquaria Copy Share Image
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.' — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate. — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it… — Adrian Ballinger Copy Share Image
History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
