Arthur T. Hadley Quotes

History is totally unpredictable.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

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.

The world runs on luck.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

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.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

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.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

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

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Destiny and history are untidy.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

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

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

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