The future enters into us, in order to transform itself
in us, long before it happens.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, quoted in Earth
Rising
Be prepared to be surprised.
- Harrison Owen, Open
Space Technology
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel
Goldwyn
I have faith in how things seem to start again. That tale
of your one big chance is a lie told by consumed men.
- Poi
Dog Pondering
We live in a sort of human advent calendar -- we never
know who will be coming through the door.
- Sue Haigh, cited in Go
Slow England
If you do not know where you are going, any road will take
you there.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Since the earliest days of cinema film-makers have had
to put up with chance willy-nilly. At the beginning, films
were almost totally at its mercy. Lumiere set his camera
up on the station platform at La Ciotat and waited for the
train to pull in. When it came in sight it was he who decided
when to crank away behind the camera, but chance remained
in complete control of the mise-en-scene.
- Noel
Burch, Theory of Film Practice
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
- Cherie Carter Scott, The
Rules for Being Human
Vamos andar.
- Silvio Rodriguez
Queen Isabella did not send Christopher Columbus on a voyage
of discovery, she gave him a franchise that demanded that he
exploit what he discovered for the mercantile gain of the franchise
owner. In the new world, God would reward wealth, not understanding.
It was exploited without ever being explored.
- Brian Fawcett, Cambodia:
A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
A lesson is repeated until learned.
- Cherie Carter Scott, The
Rules for Being Human
They're like the people chained up in the cave / in the allegory
of the people in the cave / by the Greek guy / No one understands;
No one knows my plan.
- They
Might Be Giants, No One Knows My Plan
You will forget all this.
- Cherie Carter Scott, The
Rules for Being Human
No snowflake every falls in the wrong place.
- Zen saying
Take these chances. Place them in a box until a quieter time.
- Dave Matthews Band, Ants Marching
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Swedish proverb |
