Luck Quotes
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Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.
Pal Benko
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We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
David Lindsay-Abaire
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I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
Oprah Winfrey
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I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!
John C. Reilly
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There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Edmond H. Fischer
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That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
Joan Leslie
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The country will not have to pay the piper. Through a combination of sound policy actions and a great deal of good luck we are well on our way to a soft landing and a period of growth and price stability.
Lawrence Summers
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He stood, and heard the steepleSprinkle the quarters on the morning town.One, two, three, four, to market-place and peopleIt tossed them down.Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.
A. E. Housman
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
Taron Egerton
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
Colin Trevorrow
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Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.
Quentin Tarantino
