Serendipitous Quotes

#1. John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Jeremy Piven

#2. I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

Hamish Bowles

#3. Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these serendipitous exchanges made imprints on my mind and heart and served as catalysts for my ongoing growth and development.

Kristin S. Kaufman

#4. I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

Rick Springfield

#5. 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

#6. Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

Joe Murray

#7. We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world ... until we are sure of foot.

Neal Shusterman

#8. If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.

Tony Hsieh

#9. Without being told, he'd ordered what I wanted. It was another of the many serendipitous things that always made me feel like we were destined to end up in the same place, together, if only we could make it that far.

Sylvia Day

#10. Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.

Ron Conway

#11. It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually choice? How could it be that tiny serendipitous events could change everything? And if lucky events could change everything, could minor mishaps have the same power?

Aditi Khorana

#12. Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Horace Walpole

#13. 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

#14. Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

Devendra Banhart

#15. There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

M.J. Rose

#16. Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.

Sylvia Libow Martinez

#17. I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Serge Haroche

#19. Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.

Pearl Zhu

#20. It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Social media is just useless garbage until one random, serendipitous, meaningful connection happens and suddenly the whole world shifts.

Dan Blank

#22. You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those serendipitous moments that can really make a record, that I think are always required in the making of a really good record.

James Mercer

#23. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#24. I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.

Rita Golden Gelman

#25. It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lawrence Wright

#27. A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed.

Earl Nightingale

#28. I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'

Vicki Lawrence

#29. The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Dustin Moskovitz

#30. 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

#31. I tried not to read anything into his being there; things like this weren't serendipitous when you lived in the smallest town ever.

Heather Demetrios

#32. Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

Simon Van Booy

#33. Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Gina Greenlee

#34. 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

#35. Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

T.T. Faulkner