Serendipity Quotes - Page 2

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.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

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.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

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.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

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.

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.

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.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

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.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

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.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

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.

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

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.