Top 1200 Luck And Skill Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

The dream of Bullfrog is that everybody is employed for their creativity rather than their particular skill.

Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Usually guys with your skill set like to eat bugs; I don't get that dude.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

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

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

I have a family, a label, and I have responsibilities. It requires discipline and constant development of your skill.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

I've been working hard on my fitness, skill, everything. Luckily it paid off.

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

I think I definitely have the mentality and skill set to be a top-five receiver, that's no doubt.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

There are great actors we'll never see just because they haven't had my luck.

Talent in cooking can be described as skill, creativity, your instincts, how do you approach a problem.