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Tag Name "Serendipity" (46)

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Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
Katori Hall
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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
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Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
Peter H. Reynolds
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Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.
Jonathon Keats
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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
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
Pico Iyer
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Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
Erin McKean
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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.
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What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
Jose Manuel Barroso
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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
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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
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Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.
Phil Cousineau
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
Alan Alda
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It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.
Rainbow Rowell
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For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Charles Traub
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Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.
Sally Mann
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With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
Daniel Handler
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Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
David Levithan
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It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.
Steven Johnson
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There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.
Emily Giffin
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The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.
Suw Charman-Anderson
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.
Gabriel Byrne
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Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.
Tom Hanks
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