Top 44 Serendipity Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Serendipity Quotes from famous people such as Tony Harrison, Jeff Bezos, Susan Brooks, Robert Vaughn, Pete Wentz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creativ

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.
Tony Harrison
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff Bezos
I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what’s in front of me, and serendipity steps in.
Susan Brooks
With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I’ve managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.
Robert Vaughn
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
Pete Wentz
I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.
Tony Harrison
There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
David Coleman
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
Pete Wentz
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn’t necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan.
Karen Finerman
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.
Akira Suzuki
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.
What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
Jose Manuel Barroso
The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
John Vane
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
Gary Hamel
I just like the word ‘serendipity.’
Noah Centineo
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
Shaun Tan
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of ‘Serendipity,’ I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people’s lives.
RM
Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan.
Karen Finerman
A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Emanuel Ax
Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear, it can take me some time to slow down and all that time I’m missing the serendipity of the wonderful things that are all around us.
Tony Robinson
Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.
Tim Berners-Lee
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
Mark Helprin
I just like the word ‘serendipity.’
Noah Centineo
The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this ‘thing’ have a certain serendipity.
Jessica Stockholder
Politics is so much about serendipity that we’ve got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you’ve got others to turn to.
Eleanor Clift
The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don’t have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann
Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
Katori Hall
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
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn’t necessarily intending to read.
Jill Abramson
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
Alan Alda
There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
David Coleman
Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.
Tim Berners-Lee
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
Alan Alda
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
Heather Brooke
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it’s based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky – to think of serendipitous as smart.
Ethan Zuckerman
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 I’ve ever done it.
Gabriel Byrne
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
Cybill Shepherd
Most of us work so hard and live so hard. On the first day of the holiday I remain in work gear, it can take me some time to slow down and all that time I’m missing the serendipity of the wonderful things that are all around us.
Tony Robinson
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
Cybill Shepherd
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
Julie Bishop