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So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying. -- Philippe Perrin
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. -- Samuel Goldwyn
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. -- John Barrow
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. -- Frank Sinatra
My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes. -- Preity Zinta
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. -- David J. Anderson
You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance. -- Robert Jordan
A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make. -- Grant Heslov
Give luck a chance to happen. -- Tom Kite
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure. -- A. E. Housman
Luck is being ready for the chance. -- J. Frank Dobie
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. -- Richard Cobden
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. -- Emily Dickinson
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. -- Richard Bach
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. -- Baltasar Gracian
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players. -- Bernard Baruch
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. -- Amy Tan
While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate. -- Tom Shippey
No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself. -- Stephen Richards
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. -- Jamie Oliver
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. -- Erich Maria Remarque
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck. -- Pat Riley
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. -- Baltasar Gracian
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. -- Calvin Coolidge
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. -- Hosea Ballou
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. -- J. K. Rowling
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. -- Edmond H. Fischer
You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. -- Mary Oliver
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. -- Arthur Goldberg
What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes. -- Natasha Josefowitz
My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly! -- Johnny Depp
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -- William Shakespeare

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