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“I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.”

Mean Sometimes Done Accidents

Author:Jasper Johns

“(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.”

Problem Happened Discovery Accidents Triumph Fortunate Academic Penicillin

Author:Alexander Fleming

“Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.”

Ifs World May Born Thousand Creatures Accidents Liable

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.”

Creative Impossible Train Accidents Absurd Unexpected Train Of Thought

Author:Asger Jorn

“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.”

Giving Believe Opportunity Accidents Ingredients Happy Life

Author:Rachael Ray

“If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.”

Ifs Men Whole Would Be Accidents Every Man Tissues Disconnected

Book:War and peace: a novel

Source: War and peace: a novel

“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Law Creative Fishes Accidents Strikes Alternatives Probability Hypothetical

Book:Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking

Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking

“As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.”

Grows Accepting Creativity Effects Design Accidents Realms

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi

“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”

Trying Quality Figures Fortune Accidents Misfortunes Comes And Goes

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.”

Want Years Wells Kind I Can Ends Today Lost Felt Seasons Following Accidents Quitting Bike Riders Morale Pre Season

Author:Laurent Jalabert

“There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.”

Choices Reading Source Accidents Related Our Choices

Author:Francois Mauriac

“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”

Life Looks Said Ends Bigs Might Would Be Kids Fall Sky One Day Accidents Look Up

Book:The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Source: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.”

Way Mets Track Accidents Gambling Gambling And Love

Author:Joe E. Lewis

“You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!”

Mind Firsts May Long Moments Wanted Life Is Parent Chance Mistake Alive Fate Birth Luck Accidents Breathing Coincidence Flukes Thoughts Of You Mishaps

Author:Rick Warren

“Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.”

Universe Destiny Accidents Guides Coincidence Signals

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”

Common Accidents Disturbed Trifles Moral Perfection

Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin

“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.”

Way Writing Form Sports Alive Extremes Accidents Loud Formal Athletics Blogging Extreme Sports

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.”

Men Humans Law Evil Perfect Progress Universal Dues Accidents Disappear Immorality Universal Laws

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.”

Way Dream Action Opportunity Grows Goal Imagination Plans Accidents Stuck

Book:48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.”

People Trying Accidents Automobile

Book:The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World

Source: The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World

“A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has...always will.”

Persons Happens Action Values Culture Attitude Company Reflection Commitment Organization Excellence Accidents Service Culture Helm Service Excellence

Author:Mac Anderson

“To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.”

People Matter Differences Accidents Making A Difference

Author:Maya Angelou

“Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.”

Progress Luck Accidents Working On Yourself

Author:Epictetus

“Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.”

Writing Firsts Lasts Accidents

Author:Guy Garvey

“It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.”

Justice Failure Accidents Success And Failure

Author:Alexander Smith

“Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.”

Looks Universe Roles Divine Benefits Appreciate Accidents Look Up

Author:Wayne Dyer

“You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.”

Persons Dream Bigs Destiny Obstacles Accomplish Accidents Believe In Yourself Follow Your Dreams Follow Your Heart Listen To Your Heart Chase Your Dreams Dreams Do Come True Listen To Yourself

Author:Joel Osteen

“There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.”

Way Results Accidents Right Thing Right Way Doing The Right Thing

Author:Brian Tracy

“Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.”

May Happens Action Purpose Our Lives Inspire Accidents Live Life Fulfillment Live By Live With Purpose

Author:Simon Sinek

“To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.”

Mean Order Plans Design Accidents Planning Relate Opposition Controlled Disorder Graphic Design

Author:Emil Ruder

“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.”

Knows Has Beens Moments Remember Reading Waiting Black Lines White Our Lives Paper Mark Who You Are Sentences Accidents Length My Thoughts Remember Me Waiting For You White Paper

Author:Duane Michals

“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.”

Men Moments Skills Tools Increase Accidents Resistance One Direction Continuance

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?”

Ifs Sometimes Solutions Balls Accidents Arguing Intriguing Kicking Pragmatic Kicking It

Author:Arsene Wenger

“The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.”

People Giving Busy Accidents

Author:Joel Osteen

“Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.”

Seems Beautiful Purpose Natural Results Design Miracle Accidents Selection Natural Selection Design In Nature

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Success Opportunity Work Focus Accidents Invention Concentration Inventing Great Inventions

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.”

Sometimes Turns Accidents Organize

Author:Jeff Beck

“In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Reason Happens Running Universe Force I Believe Church Streets Accidents Contrary Ridiculous Things Happen Dogma Coincidence Viewpoints External Forces

Author:William S. Burroughs

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

Universe Accidents Treated Rational Remarkable Transparency Happy Accidents

Book:Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief

Source: Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief

“Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.”

Men May Action Pain Pleasure Accidents Success And Failure Plunge Pain And Pleasure

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.”

Purpose Grows Accidents

Author:John C. Maxwell

“No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.”

Life Is Values Birth Accidents

Author:Gary Zukav

“Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.”

Left Return Blessed Sorry Accidents Camden

Book:Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

“It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.”

Certain Magic Strange Huge Discovery Red Accidents Unexpected Drs Coats Purple Mold Penicillin Something Unexpected

Author:Carly Simon

“Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.”

Men Consequence Resources Weak Aim Patient Ill Accidents Treated Restoring

Author:Michael Servetus

“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”

Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

“Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.”

Thinking Happens Sports Mental Health Accidents Roof Framework

Author:Dick Butkus

“Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.”

Humans Littles Too Much Human Nature Accidents Undertakings

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

“Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.”

Humans Fate Circumstances Shapes Majority Accidents Human Life Impress Mold Relentless Decree Hasty Fortuitous

Author:Olympia Brown

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