Quotes About Luck

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much "luckier" than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment.

Staying awake in the winter requires considerable pantry, a lot of luck, warm clothes, and several dozen good books.

That's the point about failure," I said. "It's an intrinsic part of success. You win some, then you lose some. But with experience and luck, you learn to lose less as the years go on.

There's weird shit about; take it for luck.' 'I'm beginning to think there's no such thing.' 'My point precisely.

Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Usually it will be something special or unusual. It may be a stone you have never seen before, or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears; then you will know. But, when the time comes and you find a sign your totem has left you, put it in your amulet. It will bring you luck.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

In giving too much weight to prudence one doesn't make enough allowance for the possibility of good luck.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm... you are very lucky!

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.