Quotes About Luck

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable.

She always said how lucky were to be friends... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones

If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render thanks to God and go in peace. But always keep this thought in mind: you might be luckier than I, but you're not a better person.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Maturing into a viable adulthood is partly about discipline, but it is also about luck. Aldous Huxley famously wrote that experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. That is profoundly correct. Our life experience is not one event after the other but a series of opportunities to grow by making sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Some do that better than others.

A fellow scientist visited Bohr at his home and saw to his amazement that Bohr had fixed a horseshoe over the door for luck. 'Surely, Niels, you don't believe in that?' 'Of course not,' Bohr replied. 'But you see – the thing is that it works whether you believe in it or not.

Here the veterans grapple with the question of moral luck: Can any workings of bad luck produce cruel or evil actions in a good person ?

Well, with luck we'll miss the beginning of the performance.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Every dog must have his day.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

cáncer es una enfermedad del alma de la que sólo puedo decir: es una suerte que finalmente haya hecho eclosión.»

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky. But there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Nunca tuve suerte con las mujeres, soporto con resignación una penosa joroba, todos mis familiares más cercanos han muerto, soy un pobre solitario que trabaja en una oficina pavorosa. Por lo demás, soy feliz. »

Meglio essere saggi e sfortunati che sciocchi e molto fortunati. È preferibile che un'azione pianificata con giudizio fallisca piuttosto che qualcosa preparato senza ragionarci su venga premiato dalla sorte.

don't want to give the impression that perfectly normal, healthy, thoughtful, and balanced people are not drawn to orchids. I am told they exist. I just didn't have much luck finding them

MÁS ALLÁ DEL «SITIO JUSTO EN EL MOMENTO ADECUADO» Hay un grupo de emprendedores famosos que ganaron millones porque parecían estar en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado. Sin embargo, por cada emprendedor con éxito que estaba en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado, hay muchos que también estaban en ese sitio y en ese momento, pero fracasaron.

Maybe our luck will change.

Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are far better than finding a hash collision. After all, lotteries often have actual winners. The probability of a hash collision is more like a lottery that has been running since prehistoric times and has never had a winner and will probably not have a winner for billions of years.

Many are prepared to live a life of "wishless" happiness and undemanding contentment, when escaping from bad luck in the nick of time or just being lucky, once in a while, is a satisfactory option. ( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )

He might have wished us good luck," Graystripe complained. "He probably thinks we don't need it," joked Fireheart as they crossed the clearing toward Yellowfang's den.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

far as I was concerned we were extremely lucky to have a mother who was so devoted, so encouraging, such fun—how ungrateful would it be to focus on a disappeared dad? Shouldn't we be glad for the good things?