Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

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

Steven Pressfield

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

Michael Behe

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

Philip Guston

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Jill Abramson

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 wasnt necessarily intending to read.

Erin McKean

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Georges Braque

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Jason Silva

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Gary Hamel

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

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Beth Moore

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Benjamin Hoff

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Bob Marley

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Madeleine Albright

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

Charlton Heston

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Peter Senge

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.