50 quotes found
“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”
“There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them and they don't know how to use it.”
“Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.”
“To get it right be born with luck or else make it.”
“You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.”
“Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.”
“It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.”
“Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.”
“Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.”
“It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.”
“Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.”
“Luck is good planning carefully executed.”
“What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities of having a patient but restless mind of sacrificing one's ease or vanity of uniting a love of detail to foresight and of passing throu...”
“Luck is believing you're lucky.”
“I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.”
“Each man's character shapes his fortunes.”
“Chance works for us when we are good captains.”
“Motivation triggers luck.”
“Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.”
“Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.”