Serendipity Quotes

Serendipity Quote of the day

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

Travel light and trust in serendipity.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.