“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 158)
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Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
On his election to Académie Française (1955) Variant translation: Of course I believe in luck. How else does one explain the successes of one's enemies?
“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
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Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)
“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
Gail Carson Levine The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. <br class="br">Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) writer and economist
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lloyd George is portrayed as saying this, as George Nathaniel Curzon was making a complaint against Raymond Poincaré in the Turkish TV series, Kurtuluş (1994), but no prior citation of such a statement has yet been found.
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