Emanuel Ax Quotes

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

Emanuel Ax

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• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Attractive

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Luck
  • Opportunities
  • Step

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Luck
  • Chicago
  • Try

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Habit
  • Luck
  • Opportunities

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • School
  • Business
  • Age

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Fish

• You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Luck
  • Push

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Believe

• Luck never made a man wise.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wise
  • Luck

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • Money
  • Today

• Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.

  

  Alex Kotlowitz
  • Freedom
  • Fragile
  • Vigilance

• Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Evil

• A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Luck