“I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.” IfsNeedsPlayMomentsInspirationWaitingMiddleStageCommunicationLuckyMethodRehearsalYaleGodotWaiting For GodotStanislavski Author:Sam Waterston
“I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.” WorldHas BeensThreeOpportunityWinningWaitingHurtLuckyThirdsFinishedTitlesCracksFormulasChampionshipFormula OneThird Time Author:Allan McNish
“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.” MenMeanDoeMadeIdeasWaitingChanceResultsEffortBreakProgressGeniusLuckyOrdinaryDiscoveryOrganizationLuckAddExtraordinaryEngineersStrokesBrillianceSystematicOrdinary ManCumulativeLucky Breaks Author:William Wickenden
“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.” DoeHas BeensPhilosophySocialWaitingEffortProgressGeniusLuckyDiscoveryIdealsOrganizationBrilliantChiefsStrokesAdventOrganisedCumulative Author:William Wickenden
“You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.” PeopleWellsHappensFilmWaitingSituationCareersLuckyBest ThingsSensitiveWow Author:Eli Roth
“To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.” PeopleRunningWaitingCitiesSecurityCrimeNeededLuckyLuckSoldierIsraelFamiliarBlockHospitalsJailPermitGrandfatherDependenceTeenageEmergenciesHomelandWhimIndignitySqualorCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.” IfsWayYearsFirstsRealHappensRememberPoliticalWaitingRealizingLevelsFieldsMinesBecomingLuckySittingFirst TimeVictimGuidesPassingPassingsDesertDramaticMechanismSixtySeventiesEightyIrreparablePassing By Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.” PeopleWaitingLuckyFilledCaliforniaEntrepreneurial Author:Benjamin Stone
“When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.” WritingArtStillsBigsLeftWaitingPaySupportFiguresHugeHabitLuckyBillsTheatre Author:Debra Dean
“I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.” FeelsChildrenBookAbleWaitingPayMaterialsLuckyYearningChildren's Books Author:Sophie Blackall
“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.” KnowsNeedsWellsMadeHardAgeFilmYoungChoicesFatherEasyStuffWaitingMonthsLuckySixPaidRight ThingWealthyCowardSix MonthsSo Lucky Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.” ThinkingFeelsShouldI CanDoneFilmActorsFoundWaitingCareersLuckyMy FriendsShould HaveAppearancePerformingBodyguardPersonal Appearance Author:Diana Ross
“I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.” ThinkingWantBelieveStillsSuccessWaitingLuckyGood ThingsDon't BelieveWant SomethingClicheThose Who Wait Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.” WorldFeelsYearsChildrenLongStatesGrowsWaitingGrowing UpChildhoodLuckySummerActressesGet BackIreland Author:Olivia Wilde