Best luck & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”

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Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”

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Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

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Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.”

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Author:Fergus Henderson

“I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.”

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Author:Champ Bailey

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”

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Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

“I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.”

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Author:Deb Caletti

“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”

“I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)”

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Author:Timothy Zahn

“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.”

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Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.”

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

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Author:Lucille Ball

“Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.”

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Book:A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

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

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Author:Paul Halmos

“Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.”

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Book:Change Your Luck: The Scientific Way to Improve Your Life

Source: Change Your Luck: The Scientific Way to Improve Your Life

“This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.”

“The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."”

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Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.”

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Author:Anja Rubik

“The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.”

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Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.”

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Author:Geoffrey Madan

“The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.”

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Author:Miles Kington

“You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.”

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Author:Nathan Crowley

“Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.”

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Author:Joel Fuhrman

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