Luck Quotes - Page 35

• You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

  David Mamet

  Three, Needs, Rich

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• If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

  Mikhail Tal

  Waiting, Boring, Turns

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• I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

  Mary Harron

  Stars, Good Luck, Long

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Done, Want

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, "I wish I could do that." Like women who endure hardships and turn their luck around and bring up children on their own and start a business. Or a social worker who leaves his country, his comfort, his friends, and goes far away to help people he doesn't know. I want to evolve into that, ultimately. I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

  Paul Theroux

  Life Lesson, Book, Good Luck

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.

  Julianna Margulies

  Heart, Wind, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Lucky, Bad Luck, Survived

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• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Mind, Negative

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You make your own luck. Some people have bad
  luck all their lives.

  Casey Stengel

  People, Bad Luck

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• If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Intelligent, Needs, Might

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• If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Angel, Your Side, Needs

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• Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Horse, Men

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• I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Mean, Years

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• I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

  Dan Henderson

  Believe, Thinking, Superstitions

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• A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Elements

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Fog

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Smell, Tennis, Needs

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• The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

  Denis Johnston

  Cynical, Odd Things, Use

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• Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

  Paul Harvey

  People, Used

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• Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Running, Real, Winning

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• A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

  Paul Simon

  Sex, Blessed, Acting

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• When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Irritation, Achievement, Mind

  Lewis Wolpert (2014). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.79, Faber & Faber

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