I wouldn’t attribute everything to luck. I think I am very hardworking, and nothing discounts hard work for anything.
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Give luck a chance to happen.
People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.
You become friends with your kids’ friends’ parents. That’s just the way it’s gonna be. And sometimes you luck out, and it’s great.
For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.
I am hugely grateful to Mourinho. He is the coach who gave me my opportunity with Real Madrid, and I wish him lots of luck.
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It’s a fickle business. There’s a degree of timing and luck involved.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Preparing well for a tournament sometimes is not enough to win it as you also need a lot of luck in order to win.
I feel I’d like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can’t keep saying I’ve been injured a lot.
There’s a lot of luck involved in getting married to the right woman.
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.
What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It’s just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
There must be something about me and teeth when I’m filming abroad, I don’t have a lot of luck.
I’m trying to focus on original material. That is what I’ve had my luck with.
Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.
If there’s a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there’s a lot of scaffolding? I won’t walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout – that, in essence, you’re telling the middle class, ‘Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.’
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.
I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.
With any luck, by the time NASA’s space probe hits Pluto, you’ll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
There’s a reason why you attach the luck factor to your hard work. You work hard in every film, but there’s always that one film that comes at the right time and does the best for you.
Sometimes you need luck to score.
Luck is important.
If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.
I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
It’s kind of a lost art form, the musical, in a way, so when ‘La La Land’ came around, I couldn’t believe my luck. I just felt like I needed someone to keep on pinching me ’cause not only was it a chance to make a musical but to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It’s not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Good night, and good luck.
I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.
Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
I see something that I don’t like, I prefer not to participate and say, ‘Look, I’ll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don’t want to be there.’
I’ve had a lot of luck. If I didn’t I’d be washing bottles in Russia.
I’ve been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.
I know this sounds a bit mad, but I always take a tiny green cut-out leprechaun – about the size of a fingernail – with me. My mother gave it to me because we’re Irish. She’s adamant that it brings good luck.
With a little bit of luck, you’ll never work!
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on.
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it’s brought me incredible good luck.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
I am a great believer in luck.
Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
Getting into graduate school was pure luck.
It’s not 64 squares. It’s a battlefield. There’s no luck, there’s no dice. It’s just you and your opponent.
I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.
Fess up, ‘Hunger Games’ fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He’s the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it… I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I’ve surpassed that.
I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly worse destinies than being coach of such a team.
I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn’t it? A lot of it is sheer luck.
Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.
I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever – a window of opportunity – that is totally outside of your control, and it’s that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.
As for trying to feed off a mouthful of sky, it’s a large mouth, hence there’s nothing to worry. I wish good luck to everyone.
So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
‘The Joy Luck Club’ is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom – and bursting into tears after the screening!
Frankly – and believe me, I say this without any pretense – when I see the road I’ve taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I’ve come out pretty well.
