Quotes About Serendipity

Relationships are never chance events.

If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

The idea that you can and should hack serendipity is a central theme of the book The Power of Pull, by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison.

But in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT's media lab, "If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Fate will unwind as it must!

himself that the incident was just a strange coincidence, a random occurrence.

To summarize, big trends in business today actively decrease people's ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and more exposure) are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work (e.g., the ability to learn hard things fast and produce at an elite level).

We can, therefore, still dismiss the depth-destroying open office concept without dismissing the innovation-producing theory of serendipitous creativity. The key is to maintain both in a hub-and-spoke-style arrangement: Expose yourself to ideas in hubs on a regular basis, but maintain a spoke in which to work deeply on what you encounter.

The professors at MIT—some of the most innovative technologists in the world—wanted nothing to do with an open-office-style workspace. They instead demanded the ability to close themselves off. This combination of soundproofed offices connected to large common areas yields a hub-and-spoke architecture of innovation in which both serendipitous encounter and isolated deep thinking are supported.

For true love comes when it will, not when it is called.

Chance is unceasingly at work in our lives," Churchill would write years later, thinking back on Grenfell and the fate that might have been his, "but we cannot always see its workings sharply and clearly defined.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not." "If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

beshert. Meant to be.

entonces Adam Wilde aparece en Carnegie Hall en la noche más grande de mi carrera, y se sintió como más que una coincidencia. Se sintió como un regalo. De ellos. Para mi primer recital, me dieron un violonchelo. Y para éste, me dieron tu presencia. -Mia

Ponekad ti donosiš odluke u životu, a ponekad se odluke donesu same.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

De todos los tugurios del mundo, tenía que entrar en el mío

The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.