Quotes About Luck And Preparation

#1. I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road.

John Cena

#2. good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

Michael Mann

#4. What is luck, my friend?" Julian replied kindly. "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Richard Branson

#6. Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.

Tanya Huff

#7. You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

James A. Michener

#8. I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

Scarlett Johansson

#9. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Twyla Tharp

#10. Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

Nabil Basma

#11. Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Shia Labeouf

#12. There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Amy Hempel

#13. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Clifton Fadiman

#16. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

#17. I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Tony Oller

#18. Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Denzel Washington

#19. Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Pierre Trudeau

#20. Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Jane Espenson

#21. 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 not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Michael Crichton

#22. The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Tony Robbins

#23. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

Hilary Swank

#24. Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Neal Boortz

#25. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

Jack White

#26. Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca The Younger

#27. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Earl Nightingale

#28. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#29. The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

Darren Hardy

#30. 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

#31. Luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity

Robin S. Sharma

#32. I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Jack Canfield

#33. Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Seneca.

#34. Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'

Erica Packer

#35. I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

Oprah Winfrey

#36. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

Stewart O'Nan

#37. Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Nabil Basma

#38. Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Jack Youngblood

#39. It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

Jyoti Arora

#40. Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

David J. Schwartz

#41. I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Bobby Knight