John Barth Quotes

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

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.

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

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

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

There is always room for coincidence.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

I got lost but look what I found.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

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

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

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

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

The thing that I like about magazines, paper magazines, and papers in any kind of tangible format is the surprise factor of turning the page and not necessarily knowing what you're going to see. You're not looking for something. You're just experiencing something.