“When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.” YearsLittlesWould BeAbleBitsTalentPersonalityLittle BitPercentYears AgoLuckOddPercentages Author:Roger Moore
“I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.” IfsEnoughPlayAbleLuckGratefulRoughSo SadSo Grateful Author:Mandy Patinkin
“With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.” I CanAbleForceEnemyLandMajorsLuckRateHeavyDamageInvadersInvading Author:Yoshijiro Umezu
“When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.” AbleWorryLuckAffairLove AffairWorry Fear Author:Mario Benedetti
“I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.” AbleNextActorsWishRolesPlansMastersLuckyDirectorsProjectsLuckPreparedPersistenceFilmmaker Author:Dermot Mulroney
“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.” ThinkingLittlesLongMadeReasonBodyCareAbleLastsAbilityPlayerBlessedLuckLittle ThingsAthleticism Author:Champ Bailey
“I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalFeelsDifferentAbleUsedSongRealizingGraceOne DayLuckWho I AmTensionResolveDifferent PeoplesDifferent Directions Author:Edward de Bono
“I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.” IfsWantTryingSometimesAbleCoursesAudienceImagineLuckyLuckLikes Author:Francis Bacon
“Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.” ThinkingKindLongI CanDifferentAbleFilmParticularTypeLuckSticksHonestlyTendenciesBrandsDumbGenreGet AwayDifferent GenresDumb Luck Author:Ryan Reynolds
“It's nice to be able to explore both sides of my personality. I definitely relate more to Debbie, my character on The Grinder. But it's really nice because I get to play a character who's down on her luck and kinda slipping off the edge in It's Always Sunny, while at the same time getting to play this character who's a mom and holding it together on The Grinder.” PlayCharacterAbleTogetherSidesNiceMomPersonalityLuckEdgesRelateBoth SidesSunnyReally NiceSlippingGrinderAlways Sunny Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“Here you go on this long long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go on until it is over. You will learn many things. Just relax and observe because there is pain and that's it mostly and you aren't going to be able to escape no matter what. Eventually it will all be over anyway. Good luck.” TryingLongMatterDreamAblePainGoes OnWake UpNo Matter WhatLuckRelaxOver YouGood LuckLet It GoJust Let It Go Author:Francesca Lia Block
“But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world” WorldImportantAgeAbleLosesLuckImportant ThingsHopefullyTrue FriendTiarasBad Friend Book:Crowning Glory Source: Crowning Glory
“A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would be able to organize both sides. I drew in a deep breath. We had the technology, the intelligence and the people—put enough sheep together and you have a herd, a force to be reckoned with. We needed a leader.” PeopleEnoughWould BeAbleTogetherForceWaitingSidesLeaderTechnologyAmountNeededMajorsBreathsLuckRebellionSheepOrganizeBoth SidesHerdsDeep BreathCoordination Book:Inside: Inside Out\Outside In Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantGivingMindDifferentHelpingAbleWaterBabyDrinkLuckyDaughterWake UpLuckCleanHelping OthersBreastsMy DaughterVolunteerStarvingDifferent WorldsSo Lucky Author:Emma Thompson
“Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.” WayNeedsLittlesHas BeensStatesWholeSeemsAbleUnderstandingPrinciplesTeachParticularDependsLuckMedicineDetailsInstanceExcellentGood Luck Author:Hippocrates
“We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.” FactsAbleReadingImpossibleInfiniteLuckPositivitySentencesInstantOddsArrangementsParticlesSmile BecauseOdds Against You Author:Jeffrey Rowland
“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.” ShowsAbleLuckHandleCentsShow Business Author:Tommy Steele
“If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.” IfsInspirationalBelieveLittlesStillsFactsAbleSuccessLyingI BelieveEffortPathGreaterFieldsGoldLuckMedicineDuesWanderUsualPhysiciansKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessRecipe For SuccessDross Author:Robert Koch
“I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.” WellsPlayAbleSidesLuckyLuckScriptsCharmingMischievous Author:Cobie Smulders
“The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.” KnowsTryingMatterHardHappensAbleNextWonderLuck Author:Debbie Shapiro
“Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.” HumansMeanProblemSeemsAbleDecisionBrainAcceptingStruggleLuckErrorsWork OutTrialsStrideHuman BrainTrial And Error Book:Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Source: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
“In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.” IfsKnowsLongSelfSeemsAbleUsedMemoriesDependsLuckyResourcesCrisisLuckForgottenPreparationLeapTimes Of CrisisQuickening Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingHas BeensAblePayWrittenStandardsPaidLuckPrivilegeEnormousSatisfiedOne Word Author:Leonard Cohen