Happy Accidents Quotes

• We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

  Bob Ross

  Inspirational, Art, Mistake

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• Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

  Bob Ross

  Practice, Talent, Interest

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• Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

  David Lynch

  Real, Nice, Doors

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Used, Engineers

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• The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

  Bob Ross

  Strong, Believe, Clouds

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• I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

  Lake Bell

  Secret, Wonderful, Projects

  "Lake Bell on 'Man Up,' Simon Pegg, 'The Secret Life of Pets,' and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

  Lucas Neff

  Ridiculous, Accidents, Series

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

  Bob Ross

  Mistake, Accidents

  "Bob Ross's 'Joy of Painting' remixed by Symphony of Science - video" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. July 26, 2012.

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• A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friendship, Rest Of Life, Childhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.81

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• My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

  Rufus Sewell

  Photograph, Favourite, Wander

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• 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.

  Teri Hatcher

  Mistake, Parenting, Opportunity

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• Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

  Lena Headey

  Fun, Careers, Design

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• The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Accidents, Fascinated

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

  Max Elliott Slade

  Art, Fun, Process

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• There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.

  Betty Comden

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Careers, Kind, Ends

  "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Transparency, Remarkable, Rational

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Effort, Style

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Discovery, Joy

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Punishment, Justice

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

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• We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Judging, Judgement

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• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Writing, Men

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.

  Storm Saulter

  Motivation, Believe, Understanding

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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