Luck Quotes
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This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name...
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
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When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Chad Kroeger Nickelback
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On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.
Clive James
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
Cecelia Ahern
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Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
Pierre Trudeau
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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina Stead
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I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.
Joan Cusack
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur
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There's a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.
Lizzie Armitstead
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The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.
Bill Smith
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I'm very superstitious, and I think it's bad luck. You don't have to show your love by tattooing it.
Priya Sachdev
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It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
James Norton
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
Naveen Jain
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid
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I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.
Elif Safak
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I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.
Busy Philipps
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I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.
Sharon Stone
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My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson
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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
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I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.
Dennis Quaid
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'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.''Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure,For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.
Samuel Lover
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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
Ed Bradley