I believe you create your own luck.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
I like to make people look as good as they’d like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
Everything happens to me. I’ve never had a streak of luck in my life.
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don’t.
I think it is an inborn talent – just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
It eventually comes down to the right timing and right scripts. Some may have two to three releases a year, some may have just one – luck changes with every Friday release.
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
It’s my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That’s really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I’ve talked to thinks Michael is a perfect ‘Dexter,’ which never happens.
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I’m here to say that it’s possible.
The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it’s a make or miss league.
My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I’d like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future – and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
For whatever reason, luck and word of mouth – my comedy career couldn’t have started better. I went to Edinburgh, selling out this 300-seater just because I got the right place, right time, right venue, right buzz, right reviews early on.
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that’s the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can’t stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
After I made ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ and started taking meetings in Hollywood, I quickly learned that Asian Americans weren’t even in the conversation as a minority, since there wasn’t even a significant enough audience, and especially an audience for Asian American content.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up ‘seven’ is still a function of random luck.
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn’t believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they’re nothing again.
People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It’s either that or I’m down on my luck, I’ve got no money, the work’s dried up.
Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.
You need to be lucky in life, but it’s also what you do with your luck.
There was something so pure about ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ because money wasn’t the currency. It was passion. The fact we were trying to do something even though no one was asking us to. It meant a lot.
The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.
Luck is in every part of China. Many Chinese stores and restaurants have the word ‘luck’ in their names. The idea is that, just by using the word ‘luck’ in names of things, you can attract more of it. I think that’s true in my life as well. You attract luck because you go after it.
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.
Captains realise over a period that if they plan right and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, luck attaches itself to their side.
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you’re gonna need it.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
If you don’t have the coach, you’re out of luck. So you can get as many players as you want, if you don’t have a system or you don’t understand what you’re getting ready to do, you’re not going to win.
Winning the championship is more than 50% driver. It’s probably 60% driver, 40% car. I don’t really know where luck fits in there – over the course of a season, everybody catches their breaks.
The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
Making a breakthrough at the big clubs, a lot of it is down to luck with your timing.
Few people realize that luck is created.
Instead of just being the person that’s like: ‘Gosh, that’s cool that people are doing stuff and good luck. Do you need me to write a check? I can do that,’ I’ve always just been very hands-on.
To my bad luck, my first schedule for ‘Natasaarvabhowma’ was in Kolkata and I was not really introduced to the language.
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in ‘Trainspotting,’ but it’s been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don’t want my brain to implode.
I was taken to my first fashion show – Nina Ricci haute couture – in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.
Luck is just a stupid word in racing.
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn’t want to stay on the farm. It didn’t offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
You don’t just need skills and talent, you also need luck.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Luck is the residue of design.
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters.
Over the years, I’ve had torrid luck with things going wrong.
I’m always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can’t always turn the drum machine on and right away there’s a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.
I’ve always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
In the U.S., the ’50s and ’60s marked the documentary’s golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme ‘Hunger in America.’
Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It’s an overactive imagination or something.
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.
I do know one thing – while success has a lot to do with hard work, luck also plays an important role.
Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he’s making the right moves and making the right reads and he’s getting lucky.
