Luck Quotes
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
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Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.
Jay Samit
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Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
Faith Baldwin
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.
W. W. Rouse Ball
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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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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
Ernest Hemingway
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There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.
John Gurdon
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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
Derek Walcott
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I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
Maria Sharapova
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
J. Christopher Herold
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I literally can't believe my luck. Torturing Americans should not only be easy, but a pleasure!
Jimmy Carr
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It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
Jerry Leiber
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
Linda Blair
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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
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In the rare cases where I've had to cut a company loose, I just tell them why and wish them luck and hope they learn something from it. I don't spend more mental energy on it than I have to, and I try very hard not to hold a grudge or try to negatively affect them either. It's just done for me.
David Cohen
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Ernest Hemingway
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This is a very difficult time. That it was tough after the experience Wednesday is understandable. We were missing a little luck, but that's fitting these days.
Oliver Kahn
