Edmond H. Fischer Quotes

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Good luck needs no explanation.

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

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

I am somebody who is very lucky. 'Kaanta Laga' just fell into my lap and even 'Baby Come Naa.'

I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I don't know anybody in the world who is as lucky as I am.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

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

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.