I’m a big believer in luck – the harder you work, the luckier you become.
Bad luck never lost a race.
I’ve learned lots, obviously – the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.
I feel very, very grateful. I’m a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.
I know there are people who say I’m lucky because it looks like I’m not doing anything. But it can’t be luck this often.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
When I started writing ‘Luck in the Shadows,’ I just wanted to create an adventure story.
Maybe I’ve managed to keep my head above water through luck.
I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I’m a little smarter than him, maybe I’m not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals… I’ve just kind of got the old silly boy luck!
There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It’s luck that’s worked for me more than hard work.
For years, kids have been asking me what’s the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you’re lucky, everything works. I’ve been lucky.
The press always compared my family to the Kennedys – so much bad luck.
It’s amazing how quickly a defined jawline can turn your luck around.
For all the challenges I’ve faced in my path to self-acceptance, I’ve also traveled it with my own set of luck and privilege.
I’m like a teenage boy – I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
If I don’t write things down, good luck. I was talking to my mom last night. I take another call, tell her I’ll call right back, 10 minutes. Think I remembered?
I’ve had the most incredible luck in my career.
I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck – and luck does play a huge part – to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.
Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens – when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results – we think: ‘How lucky!’ But we don’t usually acknowledge all the times when things just… fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
I felt that I’d rather be lucky than good. That’s the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I’d have of finding more luck.
It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‘I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.’ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
I’m a really luck guy to play in the Premier League and have so many fans, so many supporters. This is a really lucky guy.
Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.
There’s a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.
I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don’t answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.
When people say something to you, they’re projecting what they actually feel inside, so you just have to wish them luck, wish them well, send them love.
One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here’s a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, ‘If we did it, you can do it.’
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
It’s going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him – he’ll be a great batsman or bowler.
Don’t you know by now, luck don’t lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
I always believe that luck and faith will be on my side more than the other side.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and – if married to princes or kings – be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
There was a period where I did do a lot of television, but the luck of the draw worked in my favour, as they were all shows that were either fan-favourites or cultist things.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
All Americans knew was ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.
I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don’t want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.
I give as much as I can, and it’s up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!
When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds – a lot of this was luck – when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them – back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.
If I wasn’t a footballer, I don’t know what I would have been. But that was through sheer determination, a good family and lots of luck.
There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it’s just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director’s vision.
Along with hard work, you also need luck by your side.
In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it’s bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it’s good luck. But I don’t like black cats!
Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.
If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.
