Marissa Moss Quotes

In every one of my scientific expeditions, the most significant findings were things I didn’t expect and was not originally what we were studying.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

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.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I feel like some of the best roles that I've gotten to play I could've never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it's hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I've had I could've never anticipated or expected.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

I never planned to become a choreographer. I never planned to become an actor. I never planned to be a director. It's all good will. I did nothing.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.