Luck Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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 see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  Jobs, New York, Responsibility

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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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• 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 remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Thinking, Names, Faces

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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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• 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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• 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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• [P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Good Luck, Resent

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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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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• 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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• To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Skills, Looks

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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 thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

  Grace Jones

  Philosophy, Good Luck, Self Confidence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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