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• I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

  Paul Auster

  Blessed, Second Marriage, Feels

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Character, Crow, Littles

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• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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• Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

  David J. Schwartz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

  Jane Seymour

  Spiritual, Believe, Godly

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• I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

  Alan Ball

  Football, Believe, Needs

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• I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

  James Caan

  Birthday, Beautiful, Girl

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Sippin' on that brown stuff
  Got you feeling like you found love,
  Or maybe it was just luck.
  But honestly...it's probably none of the above.

  Slug

  Rap, Hip Hop, Feelings

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• I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

  Francis Bacon

  Trying, Want, Able

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• Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

  Barbara Bush

  Good Luck, People, Judgement

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Gambling

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

  Voltaire

  Annoying

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• To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

  Robert Townsend

  Organization, Matter, Fit

  Robert Townsend (1970). “Up the Organization”

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• Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

  Francis Bacon

  Intuition, Stuff, Today

  Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

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• Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

  Earl Wilson

  Success, Want, Matter

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• Good fortune has side effects.

  Martha Beck

  Sides, Fortune, Side Effects

  "10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

  Larry King

  Design

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• Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

  David Zucker

  Business, Mean, People

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

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• It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

  Lu Xun

  People, Enough, Should

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

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• It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

  Voltaire

  People, Ignorant, Prejudice

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• I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Be Careful, Careful, Ought

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