Luck Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

  Burt Rutan

  Running, Space, Pluto

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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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'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

  Lee Child

  Causes

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.537, Penguin

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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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• CeNation. Wwe reports that last night at approximatley 9pm est. It terminated its contract with cousin of john cena, juan. The wwe wishes juan the best of luck in his future endeavors.

  John Cena

  Cousin, Night, Wwe

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• To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

  Dave Winer

  Fighting, Winning, Curves

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• Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Winning, Skills

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• Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

  Anuj

  Believe, Reason, Factories

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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• With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

  Seth Troxler

  Artist, Skills, Paper

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• A big part of winning is having lots of good luck. And I think a good competitor makes his own luck. That's why he is a winner. Luck to me is lots of determination lots of hard work, faith in myself, and in God.

  Lane Frost

  Determination, Hard Work, Good Luck

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• In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Running, Military, Long

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• I wish you the beast of luck!

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Wish, Beast

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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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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• Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Skills, Long, Pay

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• This is your life. If you are not who you want to be, change it! It won’t be easy and it may take some time, but surround yourself with people who love and support you and go for it! No regrets! Only you dwell on your failures. Good luck and remember the inner strength you’ll achieve from adopting a healthy lifestyle far supersedes anything physical.

  Jamie Eason

  Regret, Good Luck, Support You

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• Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

  Rick Majerus

  Looks, Way, Havens

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

  Robert Brault

  Effort, Hustle, Levels

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• The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• British teams bring me good luck.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Team, Good Luck, British

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• No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

  Princess Diana

  Good Luck, Love Is, People

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