quotes about Happy Accidents

“When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.”

“If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.”

“Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.”

“The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.”

“Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”

Source : "Fictional character: Sheridan Whiteside". "The Man Who Came to Dinner", www.imdb.com. 1942.

“It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.”

“If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.”

“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”

Source : Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.180

“Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.”

“The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”