Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Luck is when determination meets opportunity
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
Chance favours a prepared mind.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?
Love the people with whom fate brings you together
I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.
I believe in fate.
Chance favours the trained mind.
