Top 100 Quotes About Serendipity
#1. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
Reginald Hill
#2. If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.
Jason Silva
#3. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
Julius H. Comroe Jr.
#4. Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
Julie Bishop
#5. Travel light and trust in serendipity.
Mike Brown
#6. Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#7. I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
Gabriel Byrne
#8. I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
Ken Stott
#9. Serendipity ... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
Horace Walpole
#10. While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of rough moments along the way, but they often bear the best memories.
Joseph Pisani
#11. 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.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#12. The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
John Vane
#13. 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
#14. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
#15. I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many lucky places just by chance and serendipity, and obviously a huge portion of that serendipity had to do with my relationship with the real president, Ronald Reagan.
Arthur Laffer
#16. 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.
Peter James
#17. Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it
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#18. You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
Lily Tomlin
#19. The magic of boy meets girl, the angst of catch and release, the serendipity of meant-to-be, It doesn't matter if a romantic comedy follows a predictable course, we respond because it's rooted in truth. In magic.
Victoria Van Tiem
#20. 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.
Peter McWilliams
#21. 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
#22. Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
Steven Pressfield
#23. I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.
Susan Brooks
#24. Different lifestory but with a same lovestory
They mey once by serendipity
Smiled at each other but totally stranger
Patrick Cruz
#25. Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity
he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find ...
Michelle Latiolais
#26. Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
Gary Hamel
#27. Freelancing requires such strict adherence to toadyism, to sycophancy, to the grubbiest, lowliest submissions. It is an on-spec life and it is full of what can only be described as insane serendipity (or serendipitous insanity).
Richard Morgan
#28. There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff Bezos
#29. A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Emanuel Ax
#30. You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
Timothy Egan
#31. Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
Ethan Zuckerman
#32. 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.
David Levithan
#33. Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
Tim Berners-Lee
#34. Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
Erin McKean
#35. It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
Briar Kit Esme
#36. 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.
Lawrence Block
#37. I asked the universe for serendipity and you walked through my door.
Nikki Rowe
#38. 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.
Cybill Shepherd
#39. There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
David Coleman
#40. The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.
Tom Kelley
#41. Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
Katori Hall
#42. 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
#43. Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
Alan Alda
#44. There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Jason Silva
#45. Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
Pico Iyer
#47. Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!
Rufus Wainwright
#48. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
David Levithan
#49. What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
Paul Polman
#50. I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me.
Michelle Rodriguez
#51. Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.
Renee Carlino
#52. 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
#53. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#54. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
Albert Hofmann
#55. Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.
Nikki Rowe
#56. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
Judith Orloff
#57. In the end, Spider and I were going to be forever linked. Serendipity.
Julie Hockley
#58. There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Laura Lippman
#59. The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favors the one who tries
Barbara Oakley
#61. Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.
Condoleezza Rice
#62. 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.
Mary Oliver
#63. Serendipity ~ finding something more than you were originally looking for.
Nikki Rowe
#64. Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.
Sally Mann
#65. There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things look darkest some little piece of serendipity comes along to put you back on a heavenly plane.
Bill Bryson
#66. For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Charles Traub
#68. Those that earn serendipity see what others don't, do what others won't and keep pushing when prudence says quit.
Glenn Llopis
#69. Who drops a postcard in someone's lap? I'm not sure who I think I am. Carmen Sandiego? That girl from Serendipity?
Lily Paradis
#70. 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.
Rita Gelman
#71. One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
Lawrence Block
#72. I sat with the broken;
I whispered their names,
I let them feel for the first time; serendipity, would change the vision they see for a day
Nikki Rowe
#73. 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.
Adrian Bejan
#74. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
Lemony Snicket
#75. 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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. Serendipity: Such a beautiful word describing the occurrence of events by chance. I like to think it's the energy you put out into the world
returning your energy with love.
Steven Aitchison
#77. 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.
Joan Erickson
#78. With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.
Robert Vaughn
#79. When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one things encounters something else: the unexpected.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#80. I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
Pete Wentz
#81. I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
#82. Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately seeking one title or another, clicking to order, and moving on. Serendipity.
Karen Doornebos
#83. Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#84. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.
Emily Giffin
#85. Serendipity works in crazy mysterious ways, doesn't it? I thought I was going to die when Nathan broke our engagement, now here I am on my honeymoon falling in love with another man.
Leah Marie Brown
#86. Serendipity awakens the dutiful wife to personal growth when a
transformational opportunity comes her way.
Jean Harlan
#87. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
Mark Helprin
#88. 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.
Susan Stroman
#89. At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
John Hagel III
#90. Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.
Pearl Zhu
#91. It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.
Rainbow Rowell
#92. 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
#93. Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.
Phil Cousineau
#94. When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Clive Thompson
#95. Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
Eleanor Clift
#96. We could have simply passed like ships in the night, with serendipity eluding us.
Matt Abrams
#97. You could always count on serendipity to keep things interesting.
Emory Sharplin
#98. Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.
Steve Leveen
#99. Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
Peter H. Reynolds
#100. The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann
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