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

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Source : "Search Patterns : Design for Discovery". Book by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender (p. 131), 2010.

Erin McKean

#Serendipity Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Findings Quotes

“Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
“Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.”
“Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.”

Source : Sara Shepard (2009). “Pretty Little Liars #5: Wicked”, p.1, Harper Collins
“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”
“People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.”
“There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.”
“I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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