When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.
In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.
Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet.
Call it my good luck or my open-minded nature; I never felt that I was overshadowed by my co-stars.
The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
In the long run, you make your own luck – good, bad, or indifferent.
I’ve never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.
I’ve had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I’d really like to give that another go. I don’t know if I’d chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair’s shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist’s luck.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
I have certain values. I know where I come from. I am a hard worker. I’m conscious of my luck.
I don’t believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you’re in serious trouble.
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can’t complain.
The difficulty with American television is it’s pot luck.
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
I’d rather have luck on my side than anything else.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that’s bad luck.
I firmly believe in destiny, so let’s see what my luck has in store for me.
There’s always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try not to think too much about my own looks or how I work. There’s a danger in becoming too self-aware.
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That’s luck. That’s randomness.
