Quotes About Serendipity

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

What they don't get is that if they hadn't chosen their current partner, they would have wound up with the same guy wearing different pants

You fell into your life, the same way I fell into mine.

Some famous person said, Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck. I think that's a lot of it. It's being ready to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I'm kind of a crazy person.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

concepto de casualidad

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.

And it was if our lives collided in an unbelievable exquisite mess.

The right people will always find you at the right time.

if you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.

The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren't planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.