Quotes About Luck

Everything in the garden was like that: lovely but impossible to enjoy properly, with that worrying feeling inside that they were only there through an odd stroke of luck, and the fear that they'd soon have to give an account of themselves.

Ci sono quelli che si condannano al grigiore della vita più mediocre perché hanno avuto un dolore, una sfortuna; ma ci sono anche quelli che lo fanno perché hanno avuto più fortuna di quella che si sentivano di reggere.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

Do you still want to be a farmer?' Mom asked. I shook my head. 'Then study hard. You can choose your future, your sisters and brother can't. You're lucky. If they had blisters like yours, they would still have to be there till the last stem was harvested. It's their life.

Luckily, the clever pets had managed to escape.

Jae perched on Rachel's shoulder, and she glanced at him as she danced. His face was bright with happiness. He smiled as the last words of "Wild 4 U" shivered in the air. "I'm so lucky to do a job I love," he said.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Bill Harper was a lucky guy. Bill Harper had got Diane and then he had been killed.

I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a bitch.

IF I HAVE ONE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE, it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

pitch. Guess where it went? Yeah, it sailed into the stands and hit Alice. It broke a bone in her knee! That lady was not having a good day. Deion Sanders is the only person in history to hit a home run in a Major League Baseball game and score a touchdown in the National Football League in the same week! The most valuable baseball card in the world is a Honus Wagner card from 1909–10. In perfect condition, it's worth more than two million dollars.

The McDonalds went out back and were fortunate

I learned from a tough Philly cop, Carmen Morales. She taught me the rules." "What rules?" "Rule #1: Trust no one. Rule #2: Miss nothing. Rule #3: Reveal nothing. Rule #4: Question everything. Rule #5: Eye on the clock. Rule #6: Get lucky. Rule #7: Trust your instincts. "Good rules to live by. The army has rules too." "I bet.

We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

He didn't even have a chance . . . no, he had only one chance, and he gave it to me.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Todo es comenzar á ser venturoso. (To be lucky at the beginning is everything.) —MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote

We focus on our goal, anchor on our plan, and neglect relevant base rates, exposing ourselves to the planning fallacy. We focus on what we want to do and can do, neglecting the plans and skills of others. Both in explaining the past and in predicting the future, we focus on the causal role of skill and neglect the role of luck. We are therefore prone to an illusion of control. We focus on what we know and neglect what we do not know, which makes us overly confident in our beliefs.