Luck Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

  John Stuart Mill

  Photography, Foresight, Complicity

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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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• 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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• 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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• If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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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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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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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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• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

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

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• Be prepared for luck.

  Robin Williams

  Be Prepared, Prepared

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• Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Fate, People

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• Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Self, Asking

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• At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Childhood, Needs

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Dream, Talking

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• I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

  Jeannette Walls

  Bigs, Harder, Believer

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• I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, People, Matter

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Morning, Men, Gold

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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