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• Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

  Twyla Tharp

  Opposites, Generosity, Community

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• How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Trying, Friendly, Phrases

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• I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

  Joan Rivers

  Water, Type, Lourdes

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• Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

  John Angell James

  Mean, Fate, Errors

  John Angell James (1851). “The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality”, p.180

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• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

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• You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Wish, Body, Want

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1933). “Bonfire”

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• Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

  Etty Hillesum

  Destiny, Would Be, Firsts

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.62, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

  Ayn Rand

  Today, Talent, Helpless

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

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• The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

  Sam Abell

  Book, Thinking, Photographer

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• If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

  George Saunders

  Higher Ground, Needs, Pieces

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Knowing, Wish, Matter

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  I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

  Urban Meyer

  Team, Winning, Player

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• 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.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, People, World

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Brain

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• To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

  Cate Blanchett

  Years, Next Year, Next

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• That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Grateful, Return, Know How

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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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• You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

  Henry Moore

  Force

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

  Euripides

  Waiting, Nine, Wonder

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

  Merv Griffin

  Mistake, Believe, Fate

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• I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

  Ken Kutaragi

  Good Luck, Worried, Gravity

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Good Luck, Hollywood, Roles

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• Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

  Mark Twain

  Good Luck, Wish, Alive

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2446, GENERAL PRESS

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• British teams bring me good luck.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Team, Good Luck, British

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• I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

  Natasha Lyonne

  School, Good Luck, Trying

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