“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
“Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.” HeartImportantRealHardQualityFateTalentHard WorkLuckAccidentsCrucialPhenomenalIntangibleClutchIntangible Quality Author:Andrew Sharp
“I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.” IfsTryingHardLuckFortunePersistent Author:Jerry Della Femina
“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.” PeopleKnowsShouldTwoHardStoriesWantedHeardFeetExampleLuckBoatBrokeRelateMisfortunesAnticipationOnly TimeGood LuckCursedPassengersTime Will TellOnly Time Will Tell Author:Zelig Pliskin
“It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.” IfsYearsSometimesHardMightPastLife IsSituationTearsUnderstoodLuckFortuneReverseNeverthelessGood FortuneGood LuckNever Change Author:Merle Shain
“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.” WorldWayYearsBookHardHandsCareTodayRememberThreeNextChanceExistenceTakenPoetReaderSkillsMouthsTownsLuckOne WayReviewsRomeThree YearsSmall TownFellowshipPrintedOld DaysLuck And SkillPrinted Books Author:Randall Jarrell
“Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.” HardOpportunityRealizingHard WorkIndustryLuckGreat WorkGood LuckHardwork And DeterminationHard Work SuccessBest Of LuckLuck And Hard WorkBusy WorkMonday Morning Motivational Author:Lucille Ball
“I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.” HardShowsLuckAssLiving My LifeHomework Author:Anna Paquin