Luck Quotes - Page 33

• A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

  John Carpenter

  Want, Right Time, Right Place

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

  Kim Smith

  Sports, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.ptmollie.com

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• I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hard Work, Gymnastics, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's New Chapter". Interview with Michael Pena, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Believe, Opportunity, Preparation

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Airplane, Good Luck, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good training, which we were lucky to have. And I think that's what people are curious about - other people, and what they're like.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, People, Training

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Persistence, Mind, Needs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  Joan Leslie

  Availability, Awful, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

  Guy Garvey

  Media, Elbows, Tvs

  Source: www.spin.com

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• One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, America, Want

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

  James Frey

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Men, Speak English

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Long, Dumb

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Self Esteem, Good Luck, Animal

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• How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Clever, Husband

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.712, Dell

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• I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

  Ingemar Stenmark

  Practice, Knows

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• For poets that have had my luck,
  Seldom write when they can kiss.

  Alex Comfort

  Writing, Kissing, Poet

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• If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Home, Winning

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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• Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

  William S. Burroughs

  Law, People, Criminals

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• ...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Good Luck, Hinges

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

  Madonna Ciccone

  T Shirt, Shirts, Obsessed

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Growing Up, Numbers, Ninety Nine

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Energy, World

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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