Amy Tan Quotes

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

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

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

I could never be so lucky again

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Few people realize that luck is created.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.