You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

There must be something about me and teeth when I'm filming abroad, I don't have a lot of luck.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Is there any proof that I'm a bust? All there is proof of is that I have bad luck with injuries.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. ­

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.

We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.

In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus.

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever!

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