“What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. — Julius H. Comroe, Jr Copy Share Image
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?" — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
The serendipity of melancholy a road we all travel on in life. An aesthetic experience we all share, the darkness that shines. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs. — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
I like to keep my life very fluid. I like serendipity and rolling through different ideas and possibilities. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
“They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They… — Osho Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“Ever since the first day they'd met, Eleanor was always seeing him in unexpected places. It was like their lives were overlapping… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of how much I love talking to you, who would have thought staying up until 7am SOBER, just talking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
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… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“Be it if only through thoughts of clarity, Elated to finally see a crystal clear light. As it'll be just through pure… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
It would require a lot of neglect of my own life and memory to say I don't believe in serendipity. — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo Copy Share Image
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
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