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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
Heidi Hammel
Science
Poet
Luck
Science Fiction
Author
Fiction
Requires
Societal
Technological
It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-'80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.
Helmut Kohl
Power
Luck
Stroke
About
Could
Leaders
Make
Another
Were
Trusted
Six
Happen
Really
Who
Things
Things Happen
Four
SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.
Henry Spencer
Bad Luck
Three
First
Luck
Run
Bad
Seem
Had
Failing
Does
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus
Man
Luck
Side
Stroke
Bad
Bad One
Had
Badly
Nonetheless
His
May
Plan
Planned
Fortune
Who
Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.
Herta Muller
Happiness
Luck
Shared
Perhaps
Sadly
May
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Howard Gardner
You
World
Degree
Luck
Enough
Those
About
Both
Knowledgeable
Am
Prizes
Did
Realize
Large
Receive
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith
Life
Success
Work
Hard Work
Great
Celebrate
People
Money
Life Is Hard
Made
Luck
Believe
Kids
Out
Factor
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Most
Massive
Stone
Meant
Hard
Who
Serious
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida
Success
Alone
Leadership
Achievement
Survival
Opportunity
Nation
Luck
Every
Development
Concrete
Prayers
While
Available
Base
Away
I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
Ines de La Fressange
You
Yourself
People
World
Luck
Out
Telling
Only
Had
Model
Choose
Keep
Chosen
Started
Career
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Writing
Luck
Married
Oneself
Never
Like
Until
Amazed
Commit
Getting
Getting Married
Should
Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.
Isaac Brock
Love
Great
Science
Luck
Any
Us
Save
I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.
Ivanka Trump
Bad Luck
Walk
Shoes
Luck
Think
Bad
Table
Put
Ladders
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
J. Carter Brown
Important
Luck
Dimension
Be Prepared
No Question
Factor
Major
Am
Question
Prepared
Aware
Deeply
Receive
There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost
World
Young
Luck
Student
Student Loans
Major
Around
Debilitating
Germans
Unencumbered
American
Arts
Theater
Chinese
Japanese
Reason
Even
Loans
I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
Jack Nicklaus
Hope
Good
You
Yourself
Trouble
Luck
Believe
Bad
Find
Through
Sure
Ball
Where
Golf
Anyway
Hole
Serious
Round
Pull
Position
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.
Jacob Ruppert
Myself
Young
Club
Luck
Other
Spent
Frank
Purchased
Some
Deliver
Had
Over
Since
Goods
Most
Baker
Yankees
Got
Heard
Lee
Frightful
Paid
Fortune
Rid
Who
Captain
Ever
Players
Strengthening
For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.
Jaggi Vasudev
Success
Luck
Miraculous
Could
Nobody
Most
Existence
Foresee
Human
Want
Human Beings
Happens
Beings
Imagined
I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
Work
Family
Age
Luck
Way
Circumstances
Out
About
Somehow
Remaining
Instead
Without
Limited
Years
Up
Very
Any
Just
Anyone
Grew
Place
Which
Sent
Poor
Worked
Help
Position
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.
James MacArthur
Good
Me
Thanks
Nothing
Luck
Believe
Good Luck
Say
Frankly
Out
Pretense
See
Pretty
Taken
Road
Come
Well
Because
Without
Any
You make your own luck by working hard, you know?
James McBride
You
Own
Luck
Know
Make
Working
Your
Working Hard
Hard
It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
James Norton
Good
You
Courage
People
Sweet
Luck
Everyone
Good Luck
Say
Musician
Takes
Condescending
Lot
Very
Oh
Want
Frustrating
Asking
Actor
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson
Money
Sometimes
Pay
Luck
Other
Settle
Hundred
Table
Borrow
Varied
Had
Fellow
Rent
Dollars
Times
Meals
Room
Fifty
Gambling
Workmen
I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.
Jamie Lawson
You
Drive
Luck
Every
Think
Bit
Talent
Industry
Lot
Little
Little Bit
Need
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
Jamie Oliver
Health
Luck
Left
Five
Children
Public
Public Health
Should
Million
Chance
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
Janet Fitch
Future
Woman
Become
Young
Luck
Solely
Possibility
Some
Arena
Remain
Writer
Writers
Had
Like
Author
Middle-Aged
Young Writers
Who
Profession
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
Janet Yellen
Wealth
Opportunity
Will
Degree
Luck
Would
Outcomes
Some
Variations
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Course
Because
Inequality
Occur
Effort
Produce
Skill
Even
Income
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