What Is Luck Quotes

I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

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.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

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.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

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.

Leave your luck while still winning.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

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?

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

What is luck but something made to run out.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.