Quotes About Dumb Luck

#1. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Bloom

#2. People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.

Robert Buettner

#3. I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.

David Massengill

#4. How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.

Jim Provenzano

#5. Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would envy.

Stacia Kane

#6. The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

Tom Scholz

#7. As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

#8. Dunn's Law:

Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

Arthur Bloch

#9. Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

Harold Kerzner

#10. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.

Jesse Andrews

#11. Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Pat Brown

#12. All were successful,and felt like failures.
Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:
None,
or maybe one:
Dumb luck

Joseph Heller

#13. and two, success is often started by dumb luck, so play the hand that's dealt you and play it hard.

Harry Schuhmacher

#14. Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I've learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts I was introduced to while still in the womb.

Toby Speed

#15. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

Teddy Sears

#16. I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.

Jeffery Russell

#18. The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Neil Gaiman

#19. I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.

Courtney Summers

#20. Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?"
"Dumb luck," Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. Hard work, determination, and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck. Luck can never replace hard work and talent, but sometimes it can win out over both.

Abby Rosmarin

#22. I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

George Kaiser

#23. It was luck, dumb luck, that had put them each where they were, and the best way to pay for any luck, however temporary, was just to be helpful when you could.

Thomas Pynchon

#24. How did I get where I am. If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Steve Merrick

#25. Jesper could never tell how much of what Kaz got away with was smarts and planning and how much was dumb luck.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck.

Carlene Bauer

#27. Dumb fuckin' luck.

Martin Blank

#28. And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

Robert Penn

#29. Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Neal Shusterman

#30. No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

Margaret Atwood