A Quote by Ed Bradley

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Ed Bradley

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Ed Bradley
American - Journalist
June 22, 1941 - November 9, 2006

When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck.

Halle Berry

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

Ed Bradley

This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

Stephen Coonts

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.

Lewis Wolpert

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

Thomas Jefferson

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Michael Korda

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Michael Korda

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

Rick Nielsen

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

Asia Kate Dillon

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

Prabal Gurung

You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.

Shahid Khan

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

Neil Gaiman

I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!