Quotes About Lucky Breaks

#1. To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success
the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history
with a society that provides opportunities for all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

#3. Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success

Marlon James

#4. That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

Peter Cushing

#5. Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.

Tony Blackburn

#6. Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

Dan Mangan

#7. Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along
or don't.

Harrison Ford

#8. Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Alex Pareene

#9. An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

Robin Sharma

#10. People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck ... The world is run by those who show up ... not those who wait to be asked.

Steve Blank

#11. All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Ellen Hopkins

#13. I swear he could probably sell beef to a vegetarian. Charm and quiet confidence come so naturally to him, and he continually says all the right things that put my fears at ease.

J.R. Barton

#14. There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#15. Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.

Sarra Manning

#16. He's had ten years to make you fall in love with him. I haven't had ten weeks! Tell me how that's fair!

Sandy Williams

#17. If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

Joline Godfrey

#18. I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

Paz Vega

#19. I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

Steven Wright

#20. The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Arthur Erickson

#21. Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Hal Duncan

#22. The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops, and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

Steven Pressfield

#23. Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.

Kate Bernheimer

#24. For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Peter Ackroyd

#25. Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

Audrey Hepburn

#26. People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

Olivier Theyskens

#27. When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

Shah Rukh Khan

#28. Take these words home and think it through;
Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

Prodigy

#29. He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.

Julie Anne Long