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• Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Motivation, Perception

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.136, New Riders

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• It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

  Michael Herr

  Cities, Vegas, Feelings

  Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”

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• Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Order, Giving

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• You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

  Russell Conwell

  Journey, Backyards, Lucky

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• Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.

  Steve Perry

  Sorry, Taken, Learning

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• This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

  Terry Brooks

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.9, Del Rey

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• You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

  Stephen Colbert

  Graduation, Ideas, People

  "23 Of The Best Pieces Of Advice Ever Given To Graduates". Stephen Colbert 2006 Knox Commencement Address, www.businessinsider.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

  Cassia Leo

  Fighting, Love Is, Long

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• As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

  Ovid

  Friendship, Long, Lucky

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• In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

  Nick Saban

  Sports, Player, College

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• After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Making It Up as I Go Along". AARP The Magazine, Volume 52, No. 4A, July/August 2009.

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• The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. Engaging in such contemplation can produce a dramatic transformation in your outlook on life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Gratitude, Loss, Being Thankful

  "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.

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• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Design, Lucky, Way

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• If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

  Dar Williams

  Life, Lucky, Helping

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• Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky you aren't one of the first ones, " he growled.People were even making bets about whether you'd show. " "Really?" I asked cheerfully. "What kind of odds are there on that? Because I can still change my mind and put down my own bet. Make a little pocket money.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Odds, People

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• There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lucky, Firsts, Certain

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• If you're going to be lucky you've got to think lucky.

  Luke Appling

  Baseball, Thinking, Lucky

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• L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Wall, Writing, Winter

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• Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

  Jonas Hiller

  Humor, Fighting, Deep Thought

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• We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

  Deb Caletti

  Mistake, Lying, Stupid

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Real, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Lucky, Life Is

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• A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

  Kelly Link

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenager

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Odds, People

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