Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." And I think that says it the way I believe it.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Perseverance brings good luck.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.