“It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the director (who in a new work is always in dialogue with the playwright) an unlimited amount of questions.” AbleAsksAmountCircumstancesLuckyDirectorsDialogueUnlimitedPlaywrightNew Work Author:Gideon Glick
“If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.” IfsKnowsWantTryingImportantIdeasSoundToo MuchFiguresAmountLuckyProjectsResearchWork OutEnthusiasticContradictory Author:Ivar Giaever
“You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindChildrenSometimesYoungGirlParentInfluenceAmountLuckyScaryFortunate Author:Beyonce Knowles
“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.” PeopleIfsWellsWould BeChanceResultsAmountLuckyPicksUnderstoodIncrediblesInvestingActiveWideManagersOutcomesDistributionSkepticalUnluckyPortfolios Author:Eugene Fama
“I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.” MindJobsAmountLuckyProjectsFairsNervousLazyTake MeDown Time Author:Paul Giamatti
“The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.” PeopleIfsTryingDoeHappensCertainSufferingAmountLuckyDegreesWorking ItLife ExperienceTicketsSensibility Author:Woody Allen
“The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.” PeopleDoneActorsSuccessfulHavensAmountFameLuckyEnormousOnly Time Author:Val Kilmer
“I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.” SexAmountDrugLuckyFoundationAlcoholAidsBulletsSo LuckyUnsafe Author:Elton John
“To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.” MenWholeWould BeAmericaWhiteMistakeOne ThingLandAmountLuckyPopulationProsperityNativeWhite ManIndigenousUnluckyGreat Mistakes Author:Amartya Sen
“I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and it's because it's what I'm interested in. I'm not going to read a script and say, 'They're not gay, I'm not going to do it,' but I am interested in playing more gay people, because I've only played one gay person, and I've done a fair amount of movies, and I am interested in those stories. So for me, there's no should-I-or-shouldn't-I. It all feels natural.” PeopleFeelsShouldPersonsDoneCharacterStoriesWantedFilmNaturalAmountGayLuckyFairsScriptsLgbtShould IGay People Author:Ellen Page
“You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.” FeelsAgeSocialMediaGoes OnAmountLuckySocial MediaIntenseBullyingNegativity Author:Natalie Portman
“Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?” KnowsEnoughAmountBecomingLucky Author:Kevin Systrom
“When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.” ThinkingMenShouldKindBookKidsYoungStuffPleasureHugeAmountComfortLuckyWoundsYoung ManZoneReviewsComfort ZoneColumnsYoung WritersBook Review Author:Neil Gaiman