Luck Quotes
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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With luck, it might even snow for us.
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I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
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I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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Your luck is how you treat people.
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Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.
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Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
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Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
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Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
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This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.
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It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.
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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
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When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
