“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.” IfsNeedsIdeasHardHard WorkElementsDeserveLuckCriticalGreat Idea Author:Ian Rankin
“I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSometimesHappensRealizingShareLuckyDeserveLuck Author:Natalie Portman
“Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.” BelieveDeserveLuck Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.” IfsWellsPoliticalPoliticianNormalFindingsDeserveLuckRepresentativesSecretaryGood LuckPolitical Systems Author:William Hague
“Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.” IfsKnowsHeartDoneRealitySituationDeserveLuckAccidentsMiserableIrrelevantBad Luck Book:The Quotable Feynman Source: The Quotable Feynman
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.” IfsThinkingI CanDoneDeserveTreatsLuckAtheistCancerStrikesDiagnosisBad LuckWhy MeCancer Diagnosis Author:Iain Banks