Fortuitous circumstances Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

You can try to call it coincidence, but at the end of the day, there are 20, 30 things when you combine them all that had to happen at the right time in order for me to be here. That’s why I call it a miracle.

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

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

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.

When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

The world runs on luck.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.