#luck

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#asking #awesome #did #even #good

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#chicago #decided #eight #fireman #go

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#best #birth #fired #life #luck

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#good luck #him #i #luck #midst

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#came #consider #creativity #flowed #i

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#because #bounce #i #lucky #probably

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#am #ankle #bad #been #career

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ↗

— Dan Savage

#dead #even #got #lives #love

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#feel #happy #i #i feel #lucky