Serendipity Quotes

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. (Peter McWilliams)

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.

Nur Muhammad Taraki

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

David Levithan

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

Elizabeth Berg

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Lawrence Block

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

David Coleman

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

Emanuel Ax

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

Jill Abramson

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Julie Bishop

I always leave room for serendipity and chance. (Ken Stott)

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Rufus Wainwright

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Twiggy

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Peter Wentz

This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of rough moments along the way, but they often bear the best memories.

Joseph Pisani

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

Shaun Tan

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

Cybill Shepherd

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

Eleanor Clift

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

Gary Hamel

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. (Jason Silva)

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

John Hagel

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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.

Karen Finerman

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

Laura Lippman

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