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Luck Quotes - Page 41

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

"The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

"Man of the Cloth: Q&A with The Pillars of the Earth's Matthew Macfadyen". Interview with Joan Wagner, www.oprah.com. July 29, 2010.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.114, BIG BYTE BOOKS

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.127, Chartwell

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

"New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.