Joseph Beuys Quotes

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

Success is always less funny than failure.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.

I said, 'Maz, if I hadn't screwed up that Game 7, you wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.'

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

I've done shows where I was the lead, but maybe it wasn't quite right - I took them because I wanted to move my career on.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.

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

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.