Willard Scott Quotes

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

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

There is always room for coincidence.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Is anything accidental?

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

Of course it's all luck.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.