Luck Quotes - Page 21

• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

  Irvine Welsh

  Proximity, Sufferers, Habitual

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

  Thom Yorke

  Names, States, Head Of State

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• So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

  William Mathews

  Stars, Destiny, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.23, Belford Bros.

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

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

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• The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Years

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• To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Good Luck, Water, Too Much

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• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Distance, Skills, Landscape

  "Beware of Other-Optimizing". lesswrong.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

  Tim Lebbon

  Moving, Fate, Sacrifice

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.

  Marc Cooper

  Vegas, Evil, Tables

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

  Sakura Tsukuba

  Good Luck, Rope, Bad Luck

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• Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

  Caprice Crane

  Believe, Four, Stealing

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.4, Bantam

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• A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

  Margi Preus

  Your Side, Sides, Enough

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• Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

  Paul Ormerod

  Skills, Lunch, Unemployment

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

  Ba Jin

  Country, Victory, Doe

  "The Cold Nights". Book by Ba Jin, 1947.

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• If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

  Felix Dennis

  Influence, Delusion, Universal

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.59, Penguin

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• There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

  Lyle Lovett

  Bad Luck, Found

  "Song: 'You Were Always There'". 2003.

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• All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Class, Knowing

  Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

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• In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

  Robert Kuttner

  Practice, Outcomes, Deals

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.16, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Thinking, Events

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• Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mother, Good Luck, Diligence

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.259

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• In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Lasts, Analysis, Investing

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• Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

  B. C. Forbes

  Lady Luck

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