Serendipity Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Party, Suffering, May

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  What Matters, People, Television

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• When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Unseen, Purpose, Causes

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

  Alan Alda

  Discovery

  "Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. January 08, 2010.

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• 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

  People, Pool, Process

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• I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

  Pete Wentz

  Soccer, Play, Different

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• I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it." I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Running, Children, Party

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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