Of course it's all luck.
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.
Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.
You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor. . . . . Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
Be ready when opportunity comes. . . Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.
Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.
I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis. . . love is like luck to me.
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.