Luck Quotes - Page 27

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Crush, Pandemics, Importance

  Nathan Wolfe (2011). “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I dont rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

  John Gokongwei

  Believe, Hard Work, Good Luck

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• Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

  Tony Oller

  Opportunity, Preparation, Projects

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• Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

  Grant Cardone

  Confused, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Jun 28, 2016

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• So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

  Cynthia Hand

  Boys, Hair, Tree

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

  Francois Rabelais

  Good Luck, Upset, Hazards

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• How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Thinking, Leader

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• I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Persistence, Wish, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

  Cillian Murphy

  Years, Trying, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Why go further and further,
  Look, happiness is right here.
  Learn how to grab hold of luck,
  For luck is always there.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Looks

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• It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

  John le Carre

  Here And There, Forget, Easy

  The Looking-Glass War (1965). It's not so easy to forget that le Carre's intelligence is, well, fiction.

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

  Bernard Baruch

  Player, Doors, Chance

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• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Frustration, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

  Mark Twain

  Breathing, Desert, Want

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

  Ovid

  Skills, Demand, Talent

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.130, Indiana University Press

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• These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Politics, Chance, Affair

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• [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

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• Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

  Albert Camus

  Faith, Stars, Admitting

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• When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", 1972.

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• You must be a poet,
  a lady of evil luck
  desiring to be what you are not,
  longing to be
  what you can only visit.

  Anne Sexton

  Evil, Poetry, Desire

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

  Franz Kafka

  Pieces, Paradise, Expulsion

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Skills, Done

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.90, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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• It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Powerful, Attitude

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.111, Penguin UK

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