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• I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

  Pedro Meyer

  Choices, Would Be, Tools

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• I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

  Nicholas Nixon

  Adventure, People, Glimpse

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• Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Shooting, Affair, Penalties

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• The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

  Peter Shilton

  Stay Calm, Needs, Penalties

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• Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

  David J. Anderson

  Islands, Bird, Assistants

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• I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Sick, People

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• I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

  Antony Beevor

  Believe, Book, May

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• There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

  Bill Murray

  Cities, Actors, Quitting

  "Bill Murray talks Second City, fame in uncovered 1988 interview" by Tracy Swartz, www.chicagotribune.com. October 29, 2015.

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• My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Running, Couple

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.

  Robert Jordan

  Book, Giving, Firsts

  "Fantasy novelist Robert Jordan dies at age 58", www.today.com. September 17, 2007.

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• 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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• The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Perspective, Important

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House

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• I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Morning, Wish, Nancy

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

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• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

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• I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Goal, Special, World

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• I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business." A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it "Everybody Else Has Got a Book."

  Dick Van Dyke

  Book, Writing, Littles

  "Dick Van Dyke - At 87, Life is Better Than Ever!". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

  John Mahoney

  Believe, America, Waiting

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Said Life, Perspective

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• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Taken, Mean

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• Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Media, Voice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes there's luck,
  When there is you stock up on it
  and wait for the other times

  Charles Bukowski

  Waiting, Sometimes

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• Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 26, 2011

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• Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

  Peter Thiel

  Atheistic

  "Peter Thiel: 'We attribute too much to luck. Luck is an atheistic word for God'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2014.

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