Quotes About Fortuity

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

though we play down the role of chance, especially when it comes to our own discoveries.

because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo.

WE HAVE A WHOLE DEPARTMENT THAT LOOKS AFTER HAPPY COINCIDENCES

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

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

Nothing happens by chance. Nothing.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Was everything an accident of geography?

chance" is not a cause. Chance is a word that we use to describe mathematical possibilities. It has no power of its own. Chance is nothing. It's what rocks dream about.

actual happiness only happens by accident