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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
Philip Pullman
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
Ernest Hemingway
I was always lucky in my bad luck.
Bohumil Hrabal
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
Robert Penn Warren
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
Tom Holt
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.
John Steinbeck
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 a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.
Paul Dirac
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg
And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
Randy Pausch
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Patrick Murray
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