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Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work, a little bit of talent.
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
I wouldn't attribute everything to luck. I think I am very hardworking, and nothing discounts hard work for anything.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.
For a company to be successful, it's not just about ideas. It's also about luck. And everything else coming together.
I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!
I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
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.
It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck - it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.
It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.
It's hard becoming a member of a girl group among so many competitors. You have to have luck and also need to work hard.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
To my bad luck, my first schedule for 'Natasaarvabhowma' was in Kolkata and I was not really introduced to the language.
We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?
In a stage race, you can have bad luck or make a mistake, and it's not the end of the race. You have more opportunities.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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.
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.