A Quote by Twyla Tharp

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Twyla Tharp

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Creative Endeavors Luck Skill

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Twyla Tharp
American - Dancer
Born: July 1, 1941

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Baltasar Gracian

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

CM Punk

Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.

John Cleese

What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.

Ken Hendricks

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Robert Greene

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

Oscar Isaac

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

Richard P. Feynman

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Francis Bacon

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

W. Eugene Smith

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.

Eugene Fama

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.

Vinnie Paz

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".