Luck Quotes

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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll… — John Grisham
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the… — Alexander Fleming
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. — Alexander Fleming
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
The dice of God are always loaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. — Cecelia Ahern
A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror. — Paulo Coelho
We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. — Paulo Coelho
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I… — Guy Kawasaki
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...maximize the serendipity around you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the… — Steve Perry
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the… — Robertson Davies
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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