Luck Quotes - Page 36

• By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

  Callie Khouri

  Mean, Opportunity, Preparation

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• The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold. Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that you have seen. It is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture, stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Stress, Cat, Light

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• The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

  Rodney Atkins

  Football, Fun, Winning

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• Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Hands, Helping

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Stars, Men

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• I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. ... I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance. I tried to do my part to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game. I tried to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. ... I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Perseverance, Attitude

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.

  Drew Waters

  Morning, Hands, Way

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I talked to my partners (about) the decision I wanted to do and we all wished each other good luck. My partners have been very successful in the companies that we've created. They're very happy about it and have the mindset to run them and do well with them.

  Drew Waters

  Running, Good Luck, Successful

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

  Georgina Haig

  Thinking, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Men, Preparation, He Man

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• Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Genius

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• Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gambling, Greed, Satisfied

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• For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

  Dolly Parton

  Sisterhood, Reason, Good Sense

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• I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

  Cher

  Thinking, Long, People

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

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• You make your Own luck.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Luck And Skill

  Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.98, Jaico Publishing House

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• Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Mind, Determine

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• Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

  A. J. McLean

  Good Luck, Skulls, People

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• You invest a lot in your kids, from the sleepless nights early on and the frightening trips to the emergency room, to homework assignments and a million miles of taxi driving. The great thing is that everything you put in counts, and with a bit of luck, one day they will realize it. Love adds up to something. It's indestructible and immortal and carries long on after your own life is over. Who could ask for more?

  Steve Biddulph

  Kids, Night, Long

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• There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess, Involved

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• Champions make their own luck.

  Vince Lombardi

  Champion

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• I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.

  Sharon Stone

  Sex, Long, People

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad

  Michael Mauboussin

  Attitude, Done, Results

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• No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

  John Wooden

  Degrees, Different, Levels

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• In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Granted, Observation, Realms

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