Alain de Botton Quote

I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn't really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it's all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.


As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).


I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career...

I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career...

I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career...

I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career...