Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

I believe a lot in destiny, and if destiny has it, then I will be seen in films.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

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

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

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 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, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I believe things are meant to be. It's the only way I can explain it because I had auditioned before to get on 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent,' and I didn't get through - it was literally, 'No!'

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

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

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

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

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

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.

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

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.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.