Quotes About Serendipity

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind.

i think about those twists of fate, the strange run-ins that can alter everything in the blink of an eye, or the shift of a single season.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Later, much later, she said the same, that it was love pre first site, that she'd walked around that whole morning and afternoon somehow knowing that this would be the last first date of her life.

Bello como el encuentro fortruito de una máquina de coser y un paraguas en una mesa de disección.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

Never confuse good luck with good planning

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Countless writers express countless ideas on so many bits of paper, and at some unknown moment some specific book, even some specific sentence, will be the right one for the right person. We never know when some scrap of literature will have its finest hour.

You would do well to be less particular. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

Its been said that love finds you when you're ready, Lindsey Boxer in 4th of July.

Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.

You got lucky that time.

Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

One's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

The best things in life always find us when we're not looking for them.

She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.

Sometimes when a plan is right, everything else, all the things you can't control, falls into place just the way it should.

I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.