Quotes About Serendipity

How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

I can't help wondering what fate had prepared me so well for this road I was to take in life. All I can say is that the preparation was totally unconscious on my part.

What's called luck is usually an outgrowth of successful communication.

The best transactions in families or between friends occur on the fly. They come as stochastic shocks, or serendipities. People often step out onto our path as we are hurrying to a meeting or intent on finishing a project, and it usually turns out that the meeting or the project was inconsequential compared to the chance to get closer to someone we cared for.

It wasn't always about bravery or some shining inner goodness. It could just as easily be about the position of your name in the alphabet, the chemistry of your blood, or

I'm always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes those accidental meetings can be small miracles; they can really change one's perspective on that moment and on life.

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

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.

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

I came to photography by accident.

I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

The desire to get from point A to point B in the shortest, most efficient amount of time without ever wandering off path, can mean you miss out on those happy accidents that push you further and faster in a direction you never even considered.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.

Why should this girl have crossed Stephen's path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger.

nobody does anything. It is a happening. It would not have happened if it was not supposed to happen.

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.