Luck Quotes - Page 31

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.

There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.

When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.

I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

Life is luck, make it.

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.