Chance Encounters Quotes

• Chance encounters are what keep us going.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Encounters, Chance

  "Kafka en la orilla". Libro de Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Federico Reines

  School, Technology, Encounters

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• Tan hermoso como el encuentro fortuito de una máquina de coser y un paraguas en una mesa de operaciones.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Beauty, Beautiful, Encounters

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• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  Scott Anderson

  Butterfly, Wings, Decision

  Scott Anderson (2013). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.89, Anchor

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• Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Pasado, Mente, Favores

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• I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Vida, Inspiración, Creer

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• La coincidencia puede describirse como el encuentro fortuito de dos cadenas causales no relacionadas que -parece que milagrosamente- se funden en un acontecimiento significativo.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dos, Encuentros, Mayo

  "Ladrillos a Babel: Escritos selectos". Libro de Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Life Changing, Forever, Mind

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• La coincidencia puede describirse como el encuentro fortuito de dos cadenas causales no relacionadas entre sí que -milagrosamente, al parecer- se funden en un acontecimiento significativo. Es el paradigma más nítido de la bisociación de contextos hasta entonces separados, urdida por el destino. Las coincidencias son juegos de palabras del destino. En el juego de palabras, dos hilos de pensamiento se enredan en un nudo acústico; en el suceso casual, dos hilos de acontecimientos se entretejen por manos invisibles.

  Arthur Koestler

  Destino,suerte, manos

  "Ladrillos a Babel". Libro de Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

  Simon Pegg

  Life Changing, Fate, Important

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• A menudo es interesante, en retrospectiva, considerar las causas insignificantes que conducen a grandes acontecimientos. Un encuentro casual, un comentario irreflexivo... y la tortuosa reacción en cadena de la coincidencia se pone en marcha, conduciendo con tortuosa inevitabilidad a algún clímax resonante.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesante, Retrospectiva, Causas

  Patricia Moyes (1961). "Entre los hombres muertos"

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• You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your pillow in your home, from a sound or a movement that makes you look... It’s whatever draws you or makes you feel something. Then, the picture is only good if it has a life of its own. Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it’s really good, it’s another form of life.

  Sylvia Plachy

  Dream, Home, Light

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• All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

  Edouard Boubat

  Photography, Sight, Encounters

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• Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Running, Artist, People

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• Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

  Glenn Gould

  Cocky, Musical, Style

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• In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Media, Pensamiento, Compasión

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

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• It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Entrepreneur, India, Encounters

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Phones, Encounters, Events

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

  Andrew Gross

  Suicide, Real, Kids

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• Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Confused, Self

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