Best Lucky Breaks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.”

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Author:Joan Ganz Cooney

“I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”

“As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.”

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Author:Chrissie Fit

“Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.”

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Author:Tony Blackburn

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

Source: Become Your Best

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

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Book:Think & Grow Rich

Source: Think & Grow Rich

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

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Book:Napoleon Hill Collection

Source: Napoleon Hill Collection

“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”

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Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.”

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Author:Erol Alkan

“Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.”

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Author:George Michael

“Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.”

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Author:W. Clement Stone

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success”

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Author:Marlon James

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.”

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Author:Katherine Heigl

“If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care”

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Author:Brigitte Bardot

“The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.”

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Author:Peter Cushing

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.”

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Author:Napoleon Hill

“An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.”

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Author:Robin Sharma

“You need lucky breaks to be successful.”

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Author:Richard Branson