Quotes About Luck

For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever! ~

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!

He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).

But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another

We do not consider the kingdom damned," Lord August said politely. "We prefer not to use that word." "What would you call it, Lord August?" Finnikin asked. "A little magic? A slight curse? A bit of bad luck?

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.

He who does not venture has no luck.

something I loved and trying to do it as well as I possibly could. In the end if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be that: find what you love, and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream and, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing and God: even if you don't believe in him, he believes in you. And when all of that runs out, use the difficulty.

In the end, if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be to find what you love and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream. And, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing, and God, even if you don't believe in Him, He believes in you.

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

There is no perfection but in chance

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not. Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have.

When luck plays a part in determining the consequences of your actions, you don't want to study success to learn what strategy was used but rather study strategy to see whether it consistently led to success.

Deliberate practice works when skill dominates, while a focus on process and probability is appropriate when luck is the greater force.

If you are the stronger player, simplify the interaction to emphasize your skill. If you are the underdog, complicate the game to introduce more luck into the outcome.

Randomness and luck are related, but there is a useful distinction between the two. You can think of randomness as operating at the level of a system and luck operating at the level of the individual.