luck

Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.