Luck Quotes - Page 10

• It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

  Anchee Min

  Good Luck, Tree, Sun

  Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Perseverance, Work

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Gambling, People

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• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Good Luck, Chance

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• Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unusual Things, Together, Connections

  "When “Things” Go Bump in the Mind" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. JUly 3, 2010.

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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• It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Hard Work, Can Do

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• I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love Yourself, Acting, Know How

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• The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Conviction, Boast

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Athlete, Knowing

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• Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Awful, Busy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House

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• Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

  Alice Hoffman

  Good Luck, Perspective, Knows

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• I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

  Michelle Hunziker

  Mother, Father, School

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• In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Self, Long

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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• I think the production thing was a stroke of luck really. But for me, I had to do it, as it was always part of the plan. But my biggest claim to fame was to recognize those who were at the time unrecognised. Soul II Soul was like a festival to all these artists who wanted to be a part of it. We travel to all these different destinations and everyone gets off where they need to.

  Jazzie B

  Artist, Thinking, Soul

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• It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

  Alison Moyet

  Good Luck, Wave, Easy

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Perspective, Important

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

  Leighton Meester

  Good Luck, Kind, Hard

  "Leighton Meester is named Obsession of the Year" by 3am, www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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