Pastoral Resources

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Everything in life is luck.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.