Kevin Systrom Quotes

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.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

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

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

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.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I am a great believer in luck.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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

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.

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

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

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

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.