Quotes About Happy Accidents

#1. We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

Bob Ross

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

John Polkinghorne

#3. You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

David M. Evans

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

Lucas Neff

#5. We don't have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.

Rob Ross

#6. In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident.

Tina Fey

#7. 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

#8. Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Jane Seymour

#9. That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

Kurt Busiek

#10. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Bob Ross

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

Kevin Systrom

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

Thomas B. Macaulay

#15. The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

Max Elliott Slade

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

Jim Lee

#17. 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

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

Matthew Bonifacio

#19. We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.

Bob Ross

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

Lake Bell

#21. 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

#22. There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

Bob Ross

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

Thomas B. Macaulay

#24. 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

#25. I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

Rachael Ray

#26. Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?

Maddy Malhotra

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

Tina Fey

#28. Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Barbara Holland

#29. I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in ... loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents - happy or otherwise - and taking advantage of these.

Robin McKinley

#30. I sometimes feel my entire life is a series of accidents and chances- not that I am complaining. One can be very happy having relinquished all expectation of control.

Kate Morton

#31. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Bob Ross

#32. My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

Randy Bachman

#33. The future is not what it used to be.

Yogi Berra