Luck Quotes - Page 13

• I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.

  Robert Pattinson

  Writing, Years, Giving

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• I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Men, Good Woman, Businessman

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• I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

  Mike Thompson

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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• I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

  Susannah York

  Life, Being In Love, Love Is

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Proud, Witch, Film

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• I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

  Arthur Golden

  Sight, Wish, Afternoon

  "Author Q & A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Giving Up, Gambling, Littles

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Trying, Blame, Persons

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

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Stubbornness, Capacity

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Want, Pay

  BBC Radio 1FM Interveiw, 1994.

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• Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Good Luck, Obedience

  Septem contra Thebas, l.224-5 (translated by C M Dawson).

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• Good luck with your asparagus.

  Eric Holder

  Good Luck, Asparagus

  "Eric Holder Trolls Louie Gohmert: ‘Good Luck With Your Asparagus’" By Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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

  Theodore White

  Years, History, Together

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• If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Good Luck, Lucky, May

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• More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Bad Luck, Plans, No Such Thing As Luck

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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• It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Creativity, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.10, Penguin

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• To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

  David Rusenko

  Focus, Effort, Information

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• Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Rude, Cuisine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

  Niels Bohr

  Faith, Wall, Believe

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Jack Canfield

  Way, Remember, Doing The Right Thing

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• Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Men, Secure

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.12, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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