Quotes About Serendipity

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.

Obviously I struck gold with 'Deadwood.' No pun intended.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.

Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

The word paradise came out of my mouth, without thinking.

Are we not all creatures of chance?

This mention of Juan Villoro was fortuitous. He is one of Mexico's most illustrious writers, a