Luck Quotes - Page 36

• I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Twists

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

  Chris LeDoux

  Skills, Twenties, Eighty

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• To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Character, Crow, Littles

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• I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Song, Thinking

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• I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

  Jane Seymour

  Spiritual, Believe, Godly

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• I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

  Alan Ball

  Football, Believe, Needs

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• Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

  David J. Schwartz

  Good Luck, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Gambling

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

  Voltaire

  Annoying

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• There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

  Steve Harvey

  Blessing, No Such Thing As Luck

  Interview with Henry Rogers, www.previewonline.org.

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• There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Skills, Chance

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

  Voltaire

  People, Ignorant, Prejudice

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• I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Be Careful, Careful, Ought

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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

  LIZ

  Mom, Good Luck, Rocks

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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. And good training, which we were lucky to have. And I think that's what people are curious about - other people, and what they're like.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, People, Training

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

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, America, Want

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

  James Frey

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Long, Dumb

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Self Esteem, Good Luck, Animal

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• For poets that have had my luck,
  Seldom write when they can kiss.

  Alex Comfort

  Writing, Kissing, Poet

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