Serendipity Quotes - Page 5

• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting
  down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after
  day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in
  motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist
  in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Heaven, Trying

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

  Tom Kelley

  Discovery, Creative

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.123, Crown Business

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

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Discovery, Today, Combination

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• Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

  Anne Jackson

  Painting, Surprise

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• A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.

  Leon Uris

  Running, Hurt, Son

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• I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Eye, Light

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.134, Macmillan

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• The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

  Juan Gris

  Lost, Results, Instant

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• I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Memories, Lying, Knowing

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• Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Self, Long

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• Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Mistake, Discovery, Next

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Mysterious Things, Void, Paint

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• I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

  Ken Stott

  Rooms, Chance

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• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Thinking, Want

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

  Richard Wiseman

  Success, Opportunity, Want Something

  "How To Make Your Own Luck". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.fastcompany.com. June 30, 2003.

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• The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

  Yves Klein

  Artist, Creative, Essentials

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• The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  People, Interesting, Connections

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• I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Country, Pride, Greatness

  Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.

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• While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of rough moments along the way, but they often bear the best memories.

  Joseph Pisani

  Memories, Bears, Way

  "Oh Sweet Serendipity". Inside Switzerland magazine, Winter 2007.

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• Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.

  Ben Affleck

  Character, Mean, Ideas

  "Talking with the guy who gets Jersey Girl". Interview with Steve Head, ca.ign.com. March 24, 2004.

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• I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it." I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Running, Children, Party

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Party, Suffering, May

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• Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

  Phil Cousineau

  Sports, Opportunity, Self

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.71, Conari Press

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  What Matters, People, Television

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• We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

  Marcus Cornelius Fronto

  Temples, Reason, Fortune

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