Luck Quotes - Page 28

• When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

  Chad Kroeger

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  Ian Rankin

  Hard Work, Ideas, Needs

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Vacation, Two, Discipline

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• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

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• I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

  Brad Garrett

  Grateful, Guy, Cameras

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• I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

  Ron Livingston

  One Thing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  Teddy Sears

  New York, Moving, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t depend on luck to solve problems.

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Problem, Solve, Depends

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• I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.

  Christian Dior

  Christian, Years, Secret

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• I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

  Eric Avery

  Kids, Fate, Thinking

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• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

  Rickson Gracie

  Believe, Dedication, Mma

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• Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, People, Victory

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Believe, Lax, Ability

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• I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Expectations, Calculations

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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• Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

  James Vila Blake

  Sight, Play, Issues

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• There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Everything Happens For A Reason, Littles

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• You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

  Hope Davis

  Nice, Good Luck, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Nice, Weight, Body

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• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Children, Sacrifice

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• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise" by Barbara Leaming, The New York Times, July 14, 1985.

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• Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, Victory, Defeat

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

  Celeste Holm

  Inspirational, Home, Memorable

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