Serendipity Mints
The position of the artist is humble ... essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrain
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
MC Richards
A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Life has a way of feeding you from directions you don't expect.
Sculptor, Ursula von Rydingsvard
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
Poet, Wistawa Szymborska
Straying maps the path.
Poet, Rumi
In listening for it, recognize that most of the things that have truly changed your life have been the fruition not of elaborate plotting, but of coincidental accidents.
Authors-Futurists Jim Taylor & Watts Wacker
The lesson for every hitchhiker now traveling on the information highway: The best things in life happen not as planned, but by accident.
Fast Company writer, Harriet Rubin
Be prepared to be surprised.
Open Space poster
With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An engineer meets a frog who offers the engineer anything he wants if he kisses the frog. "No," says the engineer. "Come on," says the frog. "Kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful woman." "Nah," says the engineer, "I don't have time for a girlfriend...but a talking frog, that's really neat."
Anonymous
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
Physicist Niels Bohr
When we are in this state of being where we are open to life and all its possibilities, willing to take the next step as it is presented to us, then we meet the most remarkable people who are important contributors to our life.
"Serendipity" author Joe Jaworski
Most really useful information comes from informal conversations
Verifone Co-Founder William Pape
All success boils down to accidents.
Author Tom Peters
It is only at the periphery that you can clearly see the world for what it is. "500 Year Delta"
Author Watts Wacker
In a free market system, order arises despite the fact that no one is in charge in the sense of sitting at the top of a hierarchical chain of command.
"The Intelligent Organization" author the Pinchotts
Creativity comes from freedom.
W. Edwards Deming
It is hard to know who is a greater fool, the one who makes a promise of safety, or the one who believes it.
Author Peter Block
You can't change the nature of the world. What can you do? Small miracles.
Dialogue from the film, Michael
I think in hypertext.
Jane Siberry, Canadian singer/songwriter
The appearance of control is always an illusion.
"Leaping The Abyss" authors Gayle Pergamit & Chris Peterson
More than half the world's greatest discoveries have been made through serendipity--the finding of one thing while looking for something else.
Author Melvin Saunders
The truth is that some of the most important things in life are simply lucked into. The role that chance plays in our personal, professional, and business destinies is nothing less than enormous.
Derm Barrett, author of "The Paradox Process"
A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, wants to be transformed.
Tom Robbins, author of "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues"
The more diversity of interactions a particle has, the more complexity, structure, and richer self it has--the more possibilities and probabilities it has.
Mark Trodden, physicist
The new model for organizations is the biological world, where uncontrolled actions produce stunningly efficient and robust results all through adaptation and self-organization.
Tom Petzinger, Wall Street Journal writer
The best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of free people.
Woodrow Wilson
The best business ideas come from unplanned conversations.
Janet Ryan, president of JM Ryan Associates
Two serendipitous heads are better than one.
Jane Plank, entrepreneur
Remember that entrepreneurship is a behavior, and it can be learned. Within that, I think the most important trait is tolerance for ambiguity.
William Cockrum, consultant
Humor undermines any solemn ideology and its rituals of respect and threat. It is a radical tactic that can transform and deconstruct anything.
LifeCoach, Barbara Cavanaugh
Good planning should never unnecessarily limit choices; it should expand them.
Author Max Dublin
Envisage a plan which does not take a single goals as its final end, a plan in which each successive goal emerges and grows from the process of planning itself.
Cultural anthropologist Tadao Umesao
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Writer Erica Jong
In order to develop my freedom, I have to work to develop the freedom of others.
Writer Simone de Beauvoir
Embrace the chaos.
Art studio graffiti
My vision is that of a radically decentralized chaordic organization where tolerance of chaos generates order as in nature.
Dee Hoch, Former Chairman, VISA Int'l
Things are always the same in Cicily...but there's always something new. And I can hardly wait to get up each morning to see what's going to happen next.
Ed Chigliak, Northern Exposure
A reverence for uncertainty is one of the unrecognized implications of systems thinking.
Peter Senge, author
The clarity and simplicity of command and control make it irresistable. It is easy to plan and easy to implement. It is the perfect means to postpone the struggle over real, shared accountability.
Peter Block, author
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality.
Ury Merry, Author
If planning means not being open to opportunity, it won't work.
Peter Drucker, Author
Everything that has happened for me is a fluke.
Michael Moore, Filmmaker
The market changes so rapidly that at any moment you have to give up what you are for what you could be.
CEO Mailboxes Etc.
When you write everything down in a manual, people in the field read it. Worse, they base their decisions on it.
Patrick Kelly, CEO PSS/World
We think the expert writes the book; it's really that the book writes the expert.
Judith Buerkel, Artist/Entrepreneur
You can't nourish passion with more rules.
Author, Meg Wheatley
I do have this growing sense as the years go along that the one thing you should never do is take yourself too seriously, because you are not in this alone.
Author, Norman Mailer
The futility of prediction in a complex world is proving the virtue of adapting from within.
WSJ writer Tom Petzinger
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
The world is its own magic.
Shunryu Suzuki
That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.
John Lithgow
Dynamism allows the world to be enriched through the decentralized, trial-and-error experiments in which we all engage when left free to do so.
Virginia Postrel
Informality gives you speed. It takes the crap out of the business equation, the pontificating.
Jack Welch
One way we avoid complacency...is that we reject the idea of long-range planning.
Herb Kelleher
I would urge people to pay very little attention to the forecasts they get.
Scudder Kemper Investments Chief Economist Maureen Allyn
If you want meaningful coincidences to change the story of your life, wander around the world randomly and willing to listen to whatever life presents.
There Are No Accidents author, Robert Hopcke
All projects change in the course of their journey. It's best to start with a plan and expect accidents along the way--accidents that allow you to revise the plan, "plus" the plan, and make it far better than when the journey began.
Corn Dogs Dancing In The Night author, Don Hahn
Plan making is an activity that can unintentionally curtail and even destroy creative thought and action in an organization.
NDI International founder, Jerry Hirshberg
From a mindful perspective, uncertainty creates the freedom to discover meaning.
Author, Ellen Langer
No central authority has cultivated the Web as a beautiful garden. It grows on its own as an ecosystem.
Internet ecologist, Bernardo Huberman
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Zen saying
Fundamentally, we work to create and only incidentally do we work to eat.
Writers, Willis Harman and John Hormann
Both creativity and play involve appreciating paradox and the unexpected.
Writer, George Vaillant
That which seems to us blind accident actually stems from the deepest source of all. - Writer Frederick von Schiller
There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something.
Inventor, Thomas Edison
When design is a process, it's dynamic and adaptable.
Neilsen Norman Group Co-Founder, Donald Norman
It's the numerical accidents that make life possible.
Freeman Dyson
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Poet, Ovid
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