“I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.” ThinkingKnowsTwoHandsKidsDestinyFateHappenedAchieveGreatnessLuckHeavyMy SisterMetalsHeavy Metal Author:Eric Avery
“Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.” WayFirstsLooksKindMeanIdeasCharacterWantedFilmQualityHappenedLuckCastsActressesGhostEngagingLike HerSerendipityKevinPrecocious Author:Ben Affleck
“Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?” MenPlayHappenedPureLuckCastsEvery ManThings HappenGamblingNow And ThenUnpredictableInterventionSuccessionVenusDiceThrice Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The best things that have ever happened to me have not been the result of anything I have done. Some might say that is luck. I call them blessings and in some cases miracles.” DoneMightResultsCasesHappenedBlessingMiracleBlessedLuckBest ThingsBeing Blessed Author:Tom Krause
“Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.” PeopleHomeDreamJobsUsedGivenHalfHappenedHappeningsLet MeLuckUsed To BeRetiringAmerican DreamGood LuckDo It Yourself Author:Suze Orman
“I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingTryingYearsHardTodayJobsTimeNextHappenedOne DayLuckyDeterminationYeahLuckFortuneSevenPersistenceSooner Or LaterSeventiesPersistentSeven YearsMonarchyLooking For A Job Author:Jerry Della Femina
“I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.” FeelsI CanHappenedLuckyAbsolutesBlessedLuckSecond Marriage Author:Paul Auster
“I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.” TwoNumbersGrowing UpGrowingHappenedLogicLuckNineConsolationNinetyNinety Nine Author:Janice Galloway
“Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.” MistakeHappenedLuckErrorsInvestorsSelectiveRetention Author:Barry Ritholtz
“Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.” KnowsMenWorldShouldBelieveFeelingsGovernmentWealthCasesHappenedLessonsBlessedLuckGuiltForgottenBeing BlessedBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Larry Elder
“That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesVoiceAliveHappenedSceneLuckResponseFolksCoffeeShopsOverwhelmingSheerLivelyCambridgeCoffee Shop Author:Joan Baez