Luck Quotes - Page 34

• Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Favors, Grind

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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• The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

  David Letterman

  Good Luck, Thinking, President

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• Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

  Carl Icahn

  Judging Yourself, Skills, Judging Others

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• These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.

  Jorie Graham

  Powerful, Passion, Writing

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• Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

  Alice Munro

  Doe, Looks, Fiction

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• Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Method, Prudence

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• Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

  Mason Cooley

  Bad Luck, Exception, Misfortunes

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• There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

  Edmond H. Fischer

  Escaping, Careers, Facts

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• Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

  Adi Da

  Weight, Pushing, Pulling

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

  John le Carre

  Destiny

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carre, September 2006.

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• A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Chance, Constant, Inconstancy

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• Leave your luck while still winning.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Winning, Advice, Stills

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Knowing, Investing

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Determination, Player, People

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• A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

  Publilius Syrus

  Good Luck, Pieces, Nobody Knows

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• Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.

  Fred Singer

  Good Luck, Feet, Astrology

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• If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Proud, Ifs, Lucky

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• It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

  Lu Xun

  People, Enough, Should

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• ... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Knowing, Progress, Sake

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• I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

  Jean Plaidy

  Believe

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• Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Location, Timing, Right Time

  Natasha Josefowitz (1980). “Paths to power: a woman's guide from first job to top executive”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Creating

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