Elizabeth Berg Quotes

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

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.

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

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

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

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

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

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'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

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.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.