Quotes About Luck

I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.

I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.

I'm lucky that I can walk down the street, and maybe one person will recognise me from 'The Simpsons,' and another person will recognise me from 'Spinal Tap,' and it's always surprising.

I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.'

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.

I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

That's the thing with overachievers, something he knew only too well—people always thought it was easy for them, that it was effortless, or lucky.

Want me to do baths while you cook lasagna?" "That would be good," she said. "And please, don't forget the hard-to-get places—neck wrinkles, backs of ears, between toes. Your mother checks those things." He laughed a little emotionally. "She does, huh?" And he thought how lucky he was to have a mom like that. And now both Hannah and Matt would have one like that, too. Fussy. Committed. *

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane-

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru

I had no luck with dating. My big thrill was self-inflicted hickies.

If the odds are 50/50, I don't stand a chance!

with luck, you can improve yourself in the happiest fashion, which is to learn something you thought you already knew.

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance.

None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.