Fortunate Timing Quotes

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

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

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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

I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.

I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.