Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

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

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

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

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

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

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.