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

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Innovation, Knows

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

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Eye, People, Sometimes

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

  Clive Thompson

  Book, Reading, Moments

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

  Peter James

  Ideas, Different, Way

  Peter James (2008). “Not Dead Enough”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around the office all the time. You don't have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.

  Jack Dorsey

  Business, People, Office

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• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Mistake, Writing

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin

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• Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Baby, Crazy, Destiny

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• It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.

  Steven Johnson

  Hard Work, Winning, Play

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• Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Team, Eye

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• Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

  Irving Langmuir

  Art, Nature, Science

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• I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Sacrifice, Scary, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

  Paul Polman

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

  Jonathon Keats

  Distance, Creativity, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

  Gary Hamel

  Matter, Facts, Innovative

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• You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

  Mary Oliver

  Grace, Luck, Chance

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

  Steve Leveen

  Plans, Feels Right, Particular

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

  Emily Giffin

  Believe, Fate, People

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.8, Macmillan

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• You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

  Timothy Egan

  Creativity, Insanity, Magic

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Design, Valuable

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• Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Science, Intelligent, Creative

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• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Library, Looks, Answers

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