Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

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.

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

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

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

I am a great believer in luck.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

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

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.