Quotes About Serendipity

Luck never gives; it only lends.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

There should be a word, I thought, for this experience when you're surprised but at the same time the moment feels completely inevitable.

Love will find you when you least expect it.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

What is luck but something made to run out.

If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Luck never gives; it lends.