Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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

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

This is a crazy game we play. You're going to have those times you can't get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

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

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

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

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

You can never predict a hit.

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

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.

Of course it's all luck.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

The world runs on luck.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.