Quotes and Sayings About Serendipity

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
-- Adrian Bejan

#Discovery #Creative #Serendipity

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
-- Alan Alda

#Discovery #Serendipity

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
-- Albert Hofmann

#Discovery #Serendipity #Research

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Reality #Race #Serendipity

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
-- Anne Jackson

#Serendipity #Painting #Surprise

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
-- Clive Thompson

#Book #Reading #Serendipity

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
-- Coco Chanel

#Destiny #House #Serendipity

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

#Serendipity #Moss #Looks

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
-- David Coleman

#Serendipity #Lines #Stalking

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
-- David Levithan

#Serendipity #Together #Purpose

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

#Believe #Fate #Serendipity

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

#People #Serendipity #Pool

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
-- Elizabeth Berg

#Serendipity #Sometimes #Intention

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
-- Erin McKean

#Serendipity #Difficult #Findings

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.
-- Fernando Araujo Perdomo

#Mistake #Discovery #Serendipity

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

#Serendipity #Matter #Facts

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
-- Georges Braque

#Art #Serendipity #Valuable

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
-- Georges Braque

#Serendipity #Events

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
-- Horace Walpole

#Silly #Discovery #Serendipity

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

#Serendipity #Unexpected #Circumstances

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
-- Jeet Aulakh

#Serendipity #Void #Mysterious

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
-- Jeff Bezos

#Discovery #Serendipity

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

#Serendipity #Pieces #Pages

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
-- Joan Erikson

#Inspirational Life #Play #Serendipity

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
-- John Barth

#Serendipity #Good Faith #Elsewhere

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
-- John Locke

#Ocean #Serendipity #Sailor

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 #Messages #Right Time

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open,
-- Jose Manuel Barroso

#Eye #People #Serendipity

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

#Memories #Serendipity #Way

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
-- Juan Gris

#Serendipity #Lost #Results