Serendipitous Moment Quotes

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.

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

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

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

Good luck needs no explanation.

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

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

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.

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'

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

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

Luck was a huge part of the Netflix story.

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

Then I was actually meant to be going home but for some reason I decided to extend for a week. Then on the final day by extension, finally an audition came through, and it was 'Into the Badlands'.

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

Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company - it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.

I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment.