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• I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

  Jean Plaidy

  Believe

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• Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Location, Timing, Right Time

  Natasha Josefowitz (1980). “Paths to power: a woman's guide from first job to top executive”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Creating

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• The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

  Malcolm Godwin

  Angel, Numbers, Atoms

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Clever, Men, Shoes

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations.  Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Attitude, Opportunity

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• Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.

  William Wickenden

  Mean, Men, Discovery

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• I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

  Home Run Baker

  Wish, World, Ruth

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• Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

  Robert Greene

  Desire, Mastery, Natural

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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• In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.

  Michael Novak

  Essence, Justice, People

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Tag, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Fortune, Vulgar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.216

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• The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Skills, People, Rich

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• The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Luck, Men, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentration attracts luck factor.

  Amit Ray

  Concentration, Factors

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.80, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

  Ingrid Weir

  Life, Fate, Use

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• I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

  D. B. Sweeney

  Real, Believe, I Believe

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  Fergus Henderson

  Ambition, Fate, Fickle

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• I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

  Bryan Cranston

  Art, Believe, Mean

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

  Chris Metzler

  Unique, Forget, Ifs

  "Norwood Fisher and Director Chris Metzler Discuss Upcoming Fishbone Documentary". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I am aware that I am extremely fortunate that I was born to parents who had the personal resources to raise me in a relatively safe environment and that I have some social supports that keep me from the streets. I'm aware that I could easily be in their stead, but there by the grace of luck go I.

  Marilyn Dumont

  Safe Environment, Support, Parent

  Interview with Margery Fee, canlit.ca. September 1, 2014.

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• If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

  Bette Midler

  Frightened, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

  Woody Allen

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

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• I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

  Andy Murray

  Song, Good Luck, Winning

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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