Luck Quotes - Page 21

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

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.