Serendipity Quotes - Page 2

• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jason Silva

  Unexpected, Circumstances, Plans

  "We Can All Be the Authors of Our Own Lives" by Jason Silva, bigthink.com.

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

  Erin McKean

  Difficult, Findings

  "Search Patterns : Design for Discovery". Book by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender (p. 131), 2010.

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• 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

  Order, Mind, Bears

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• 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

  Inspirational, Work, Learning

  "Va-Va-Voodoo! : Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love". Book by Kathleen Charlotte, Ross Heaven (p. 33), 2007.

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• There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

  David Coleman

  Stalking Me, Lines, Fine

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• 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.

  John Barth

  Good Faith, Elsewhere, Courses

  "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor". Book by John Barth, 1991.

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• 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.

  Twiggy

  Knowing, Might, Corners

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• Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

  Julie Bishop

  Play, Medical, Bigs

  "With synergy, differences are celebrated, provided you have the energy" by D. Murali in "The Hindu", July 15, 2005.

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

  Sally Mann

  Angel, Might, Chance

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

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Three, Machines, Pieces

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• When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Two, Solitude

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.129, Random House

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• 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

  Believe, Fall, Lines

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• 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

  Photography, Hands, People

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• 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

  Funny, Interesting, Might

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• We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

  David Levithan

  Monday, Morning, Believe

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• 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

  Discovery, Research, Systematic

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• 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 Ive ever done it.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• [In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.

  Irving Langmuir

  Art, Freedom, Science

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• 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

  Business, Science, Medicine

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• 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.

  Messages, Right Time, Right Place

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Huntsman". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.

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• 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

  Discovery, Creative, Quests

  "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Odds

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

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

  Charles Traub

  Interesting, Encounters, Chance

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• 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

  Moss, Looks, Okay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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