Luck Quotes
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
John Barrow -
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Luis Bunuel
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Vance Bourjaily -
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley -
Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.
Bob McNair -
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
Clive Thompson -
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
Jules Feiffer
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I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
Adrian McKinty -
I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.
Dele Alli -
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Glenn Tipton Judas Priest -
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire -
I don't believe in rituals that produce luck. I believe that a good preparation can raise my chances for a callback. With that, I know what I need to do, so I go in there and do my best.
Vincent Rodriguez III -
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Louis Nizer
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If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.
Jennifer Egan -
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
Brad Thor -
A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.
Nolan Bushnell -
Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy -
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Dennis Quaid -
Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.
Jimmy Buffett
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I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
John Gokongwei -
Persons who think there is no such thing as luck-good or bad-are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
Mark Twain -
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
Burt Rutan