Luck Quotes - Page 35

• Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Good Luck, Long, Arms

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.364

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Real, Character, Play

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• though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Destiny, Mud, Wheels

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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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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• The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

  Malcolm Godwin

  Angel, Numbers, Atoms

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Clever, Men, Shoes

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations.  Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Attitude, Opportunity

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• Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

  Robert Greene

  Desire, Mastery, Natural

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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• If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Home, Winning

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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• The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Luck, Men, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentration attracts luck factor.

  Amit Ray

  Concentration, Factors

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.80, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

  D. B. Sweeney

  Real, Believe, I Believe

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• I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

  Bryan Cranston

  Art, Believe, Mean

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

  Chris Metzler

  Unique, Forget, Ifs

  "Norwood Fisher and Director Chris Metzler Discuss Upcoming Fishbone Documentary". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. December 14, 2011.

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• If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

  Bette Midler

  Frightened, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

  Woody Allen

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

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• Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Artist, Unconscious, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

  Sophia Loren

  Opportunity, Needs, Moments

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

  Johnny Depp

  People, Miracle, Recipes

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Things In Life, Two

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

  Kevin Systrom

  Promise, Trying, Execution

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• It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Order, Years, Working Together

  "Shark Tank's Mark Cuban talks making deals and beating the shit out of people". Interview with Kenneth Arthur, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.

  Champ Bailey

  Blessed, Player, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.

  Max Bemis

  Can Do, Hard

  "SeagateCreative Interviews EVIL EMPIRE Writer – Max Bemis". SeagateCreative Interview, blog.seagate.com.

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