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• It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

  Leighton Meester

  Good Luck, Kind, Hard

  "Leighton Meester is named Obsession of the Year" by 3am, www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.

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• It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

  Alison Moyet

  Good Luck, Wave, Easy

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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• As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  England, Calling, Made

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• People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Two, Numbers, People

  "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

  Natasha Lyonne

  School, Good Luck, Trying

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

  Michelle Hunziker

  Mother, Father, School

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Perspective, Important

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House

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• I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Morning, Wish, Nancy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• Few people realize that luck is created.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Realizing

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivation, Good Luck, Winning

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• I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Said Life, Perspective

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• Sometimes there's luck,
  When there is you stock up on it
  and wait for the other times

  Charles Bukowski

  Waiting, Sometimes

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• Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 26, 2011

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• Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

  Peter Thiel

  Atheistic

  "Peter Thiel: 'We attribute too much to luck. Luck is an atheistic word for God'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2014.

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• Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

  Paul Hawken

  Crafts, Break, Enterprise

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, Simon & Schuster

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• I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

  Grace Jones

  Philosophy, Good Luck, Self Confidence

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• That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Grateful, Return, Know How

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• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  Doyle Brunson

  Lucky, Consistently

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• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Everything Happens For A Reason, Miracle

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

  Chanakya

  Men, Religion, May

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