Luck Quotes - Page 28

• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  People, History, World

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• I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, Love Is, Smell

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Determination, Time, Jobs

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• Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Secret

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• Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Life, Motivational, Goal

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• I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

  John Prine

  Country, Car, Comedy

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• To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.

  Maurice Samuel

  Dream, Opportunity, Missing

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• As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Men, Broken

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• I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Good Night, Good Luck, Truman

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Actors, Bigs

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.

  Willie Nelson

  Good Luck, Trying

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Huber, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Favors, Grind

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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• The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

  David Letterman

  Good Luck, Thinking, President

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• Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

  Carl Icahn

  Judging Yourself, Skills, Judging Others

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• ... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Thousand, Succession

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

  Mason Cooley

  Opportunity, Gone, Begging

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• These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.

  Jorie Graham

  Powerful, Passion, Writing

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• Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

  Alice Munro

  Doe, Looks, Fiction

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• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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• Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Method, Prudence

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• Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

  Mason Cooley

  Bad Luck, Exception, Misfortunes

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