Top 1200 No Such Thing As Luck Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

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

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

I want to win because I am the fastest out there instead, not by luck; then it means a lot more to you.

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

We know that Barca is playing at a high level and has a great possibility to win the competition, but I hope they do not have the luck of winning the title

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it would take you a day, an entire day to figure out one sentence. But it really trains you to be analytical, to think in a certain way to try and interpret what something means. So I've been thinking like that my whole life and then I love Machiavelli and I love thinking about politics that way. So it's sort of all that put together and then the good luck to meet a man who is sort of interested in the same thing.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

'The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!

I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.