George Carlin Quotes

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

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

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

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I've had a really charmed life, you know. Things always come to me - they just do.

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I am a great believer in luck.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.