261 quotes found
“Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”
“Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.”
“Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.”
“I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.”
“I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.”
“I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.”
“'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.”
“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.”
“In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.”
“Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.”
“Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.”
“Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.”
“No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.”
“Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.”
“Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.”
“I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.”
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.”
“Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.”
