I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
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ROBERT WYATT Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.
EVAN SPIEGEL The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
HARRY GOLDEN I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
CAT POWER It's actually ridiculous, and there's a lot of luck. The luck factor is you get bounces and things g...
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PHIL KNIGHT Hard work works harder than luck!
GERMANY KENT Luck is believing you're lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
THOMAS JEFFERSON Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
SENECA Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
KAY KNUDSEN A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
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JAY SIEGEL I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come tog...
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MERRY CLAYTON Luck is believing you're lucky.
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ED BRADLEY It was a lucky shot. But we've been on the wrong end of luck for a long time. It's about time luck w...
KEVIN FURTADO Unfortunately, I do know how to come back from injuries. It's no secret. It's just hard work and luc...
REGGIE BERG Signing Neil Diamond was a watershed moment for us, ... We invested to make this happen. And it's be...
PAT COLLINS It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you rea...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Wondering why a person who has made the most of the wealth in own life through LUCK only; says, most...
ANUJ SOMANY I don't believe in luck or in hard work without the so called "work smart". It's not all about how y...
JAYSON ZABATE A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you r...
MARTINA MCBRIDE There are three ways to obtain wealth: inheritance, luck, and hard work. None is guaranteed, but you...
UNKNOWN Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an id...
MARK HELPRIN Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
LEWIS HOWES They say its hard work, talent, education, I say its mere luck.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lo...
KELLIN QUINN Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopte...
JAMES PATTERSON If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
CLAUDE MCDONALD Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Lu...
LUCILLE BALL Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luc...
LUCILLE BALL He's always someone who works hard. He's a good defender and a key part of this team. He got the opp...
CRAIG CUSICK The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and har...
VINCE LOMBARDI JR. Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity; this serendipity is a direct result of th...
KEN POIROT Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL Better believe in hard-luck than hard-work when it comes to making the progress & success linked to ...
ANUJ SOMANY We're playing hard right, that's the key. And a lot of guys are able to make plays on both ends of t...
DAVID HECK I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR Feeling unlucky? Find opportunities, work your butts off and nail them!
MUSTAFA SAIFUDDIN Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accide...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that...
BILL GOLD When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
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JERRY CANTRELL At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
DOLLY PARTON We had some lucky breaks and some bad luck.
AI MIYAZATO London worked very hard to win but they also needed a bit of luck. In the end they got the luck they...
ALEX GILADY But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckie...
NORMAN WISDOM Ensuring that everyone has great trails to ride is an essential part of our business. By honoring th...
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BILL DEDMAN There is no question whether emotion plays a part of decision making. It plays a part of all behavio...
ADAM KING Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people...
LUCILLE BALL Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon pla...
WES BENTLEY I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT Each diamond is unique, but first and foremost you want a diamond to pop and sparkle.
KYLE HAIN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a
tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
ROBERT HALF He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at al...
JOEY CORA So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
SANHITA BARUAH Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
SUZY PARKER Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either bo...
T. A. THOMPSON Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either bo...
TANYA THOMPSON Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the B...
SHAWN AMOS The key to any success relies more on mental thoughts than in hard physical work
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA I think they deserve their rating because of how they play. The whole key is to try to work as hard ...
MIKE KROGEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I work as much as I can [during the school year], but it's really hard as a theater major [because I...
TERESA NELSON Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goe...
SHIV KHERA There is plenty of work to go around. One key to success is that intelligence activities in a given ...
PAUL GIMIGLIANO Show me a man that doesn’t believe in luck and I’ll show you a lucky man.
RADIKALMODERATE Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY He's a tough kid and a real good player, ... He made a couple of key plays on offense, a couple of k...
GARY CAMPBELL I've been lucky these days to have my brother Skip come up and run the company while I do the hard p...
BOB CARNES Defensive linemen are hard to find. Paul runs well and plays hard. If he's got the work-ethic the li...
ED MEIERKORT I love it. The only hard part is coming back to Olympia to work.
JEFF HANSEN Pressure busts pipes -- but it can also make a diamond. I'm a diamond.
TROY SMITH Surprise is a key part of life
PARKER LOUIS SEELY It's hard luck but it happens. It's part of the game. It's not always a fair game. I did all I can d...
DOUG DAVIS We're trying to stick together here and do the proper things and do the proper plays and work hard i...
DARCY TUCKER I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel l...
EMRAAN HASHMI I think the crisis part is over. Certainly, we still have a lot of hard work to do.
GUY KAWASAKI I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV A star is a floating diamond; a diamond is a buried star.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT Having the will to succeed is one part, translating thoughts into action is another part and of cour...
ZENG HAN JUN I like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.
LUKE RICHARDSON Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ...
IVAN GLASENBERG i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
MARY ANN ALLISON It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also
MARK TWAIN Even war can be silent
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JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
DUSTIN DIAMOND Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN