Quotes by Serendipity Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. Julius H. Comroe, Jr. serendipity daughter inspirational We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. Julio Cortazar serendipity lightning attention 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 serendipity nice waiting Serendipity always rewards the prepared. Katori Hall prepared serendipity rewards I always leave room for serendipity and chance. Ken Stott serendipity chance rooms 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 serendipity real book One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else. Lawrence Block serendipity mind order You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all. Lily Tomlin serendipity funny interesting It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. Lois McMaster Bujold serendipity target feelings We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason Marcus Cornelius Fronto serendipity temples reason You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. Mary Oliver serendipity luck grace The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. Maya Lin serendipity art thinking In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes. Michael Behe mutation serendipity luck I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me. Michelle Rodriguez serendipity sacrifice scary Travel light and trust in serendipity. Mike Brown travel-light serendipity light ...maximize the serendipity around you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb serendipity luck Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues. Nassim Nicholas Taleb serendipity party suffering If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters. Nassim Nicholas Taleb serendipity what-matters people Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. Nassim Nicholas Taleb bmw serendipity work What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations. Paul Cezanne serendipity roots trying «12345»
