attributes success to luck

 

"I had a harder time getting a waiter job than I experienced breaking into the film industry."
- Tim Burton [born 1958]

the absurd

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

– Jean Cocteau [1889-1963]

black swan

"Life is hugely a matter of luck."
- John Cleese paraphrasing Nassim Taleb

"Sometimes you need to endure 1001 days of bad luck before you have a good luck day."
- Sandy Chin

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"Luck is where the crossroads of opportunity and preparation meet."
-Seneca

"People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don’t want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either."

- Excerpt from Michael Lewis' 2012 Princeton Commencement speech

'Ruffalo-ed'

When what first appears to be bad luck turns out to be good luck.

fortune

"There is no luck without preparation meeting the moment of opportunity."
- Oprah