Luck Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

  Steve Backley

  Moving, Good Luck, Creating

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• Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Strong, Son

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin

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• Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Gratitude, Good Life, Grateful

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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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• But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.

  Stuart Dybek

  Love, Summer, Karma

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan

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

  Leon M. Lederman

  Ingredients, Physics, Forget

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Everything Happens For A Reason, Miracle

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The concept of luck is very straightforward.  Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

  Richard Wiseman

  Opportunity, People, Straightforward

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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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• But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

  Syd Field

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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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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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Soccer, Football, Ocean

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

  Martin J. Whitman

  Numbers, Technique, Self Defense

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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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• It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.

  Sara Benincasa

  Dream, Nice, Reality

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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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• 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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• I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

  Dorothy Gish

  Greatness, America, Quality

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