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• To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Today, Lucky

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• It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Keys, Skills, Roles

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

  Matthew Bonifacio

  Magic, Mind, Obstacles

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Real, Team, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I was baking cakes for a gourmet shop and put two chocolate cakes in oven to bake and when I opened the oven an hour later, they were raw - the oven wasn't working. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't borrow an oven and I didn't want to waste the batter, so I came up with the idea of steaming them and they came out great! Thick and fudgy, like pudding cake. That happy accident was always in the back of mind.

  Michele Scicolone

  Cake, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

  Max Richter

  Piano, Normal, Sketching

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Jane Seymour

  Watercolors, Accidents

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• The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Philosophy, Would Be

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

  Jeff Ross

  Careers, Has Beens, Series

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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• Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

  Jim Lee

  Creating, Creative, Accidents

  "Why Jim Lee And Dan DiDio Decided To Reboot DC Comics [Video]". Interview with Kevin Ohannessian and Adam Barenblat, www.fastcompany.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

  Julian Casablancas

  Art, Hard Work, Enough

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• We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

  Bob Ross

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Accidents

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• You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Together, Way

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Adventures are funny things.
  Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
  But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
  And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
  Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Funny Things

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2006). “The Final Storm”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Judging, Tendencies

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• [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Matter, Next

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