Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.
Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.
It was a stroke of luck when I worked in 'Agneepath.' It was a great role, something different for me.
Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.
I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.
I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.
You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can't keep saying I've been injured a lot.
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
You must be a poet,
a lady of evil luck
desiring to be what you are not,
longing to be
what you can only visit.
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.
Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.
It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
Making a breakthrough at the big clubs, a lot of it is down to luck with your timing.
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.
I'm very superstitious, and I think it's bad luck. You don't have to show your love by tattooing it.
I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.
I have always worked hard. The only thing missing was a smile from Lady Luck.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.
Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
It's amazing how quickly a defined jawline can turn your luck around.
I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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