Finding Serendipity Quotes

#1. The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Akira Suzuki

#2. There's nothing quite like the glorious serendipity of finding a book you didn't know you wanted to read.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Thom Browne is like a wizard when it comes to clothes. Even though his suits are so shrunken, they feel like pajamas.

Brad Goreski

#4. Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

Gracie Gold

#5. Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.

George W. Bush

#6. I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.

Mark Burnett

#7. Serendipity ~ finding something more than you were originally looking for.

Nikki Rowe

#8. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

Lanza Del Vasto

#9. The magic of scavenging is in the serendipity of the find; to actually hunt for objects - though sometimes necessary - diminishes the pleasure of finding them.

Barbara Hodgson

#10. Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. Keep it simple.

Rick Riordan

#11. You are greater than you know.

Mother Teresa

#12. Stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Angelica Banks

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

Erin McKean

#14. D drew back and took Jack's face in his hands. "I'll find you. You hear me?" Jack nodded, a lump rising in his throat. "I'll find you.

Jane Seville

#15. Life sucks. It's all random bullshit that adds up to nothing but chaos. Serendipity: accidentally finding something wonderful while not looking for it. A few get lucky. The rest of us fight for what's left over.

Adriana Law

#16. Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it

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#17. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

Greg Carlson