Sentences with phrase «dumb luck re»

Whether Bobby Riggs was so far ahead of everybody else in his recognition of a man - woman gimmick as a potential bonanza or whether he stumbled onto it by dumb luck is moot, but evidence supports the latter view.

For some reason, Texans believe that their own dumb luck is proof of the greatness of the free market system

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It's not just dumb luck, it's work.»

The folks who succeed have no way to know if their success was due to talent, skill, and planning, or merely dumb luck.

When I recently went looking for my bitcoins, because the prices kept going up, it was just dumb luck that I had installed Coinbase, the digital currency trading platform, on one of my desktop machines for convenience.

Since being irresistible isn't the result of dumb luck, it's time to study the habits of irresistible people so that you can use them to your benefit.

Sinek's unlikely success as both an inspirational speaker and a bestselling author isn't just dumb luck.

Andrew: It's just dumb luck that my cousin leased a restaurant in Hollywood called Ting Ho.

If they do it will be dumb luck.

So it was dumb luck that a pile of data from that era existed to help a U.S. - Canadian team of researchers later prove the perilousness of our sedentary time.

A good deal of RE income and some dumb luck (and significant) capital gains on a few properties combined with a small inheritance helped quite a bit.

But if we do it will be pure, dumb luck, not a consequence of good design or sound regulation.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

In fact, I found myself using the word «luck» more often, simply because I would rather dumb, meaningless luck be the cause of such injustice than God.

You are smart enough to see a BMW drive by and say great engineering, yet you see the complexity of life and say dumb luck.

In fact there's no difference between dumb luck and divine intervention.

The first time I made this recipe, I thought I just had dumb luck (gluten free baking with coconut flour is like so hit and miss).

The best asset we were suppose to get back from that trade is easily the worst of the three (LaVine), the best was totally dumb luck (THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT LAURI, JUST BPA) and I'm still not sold on Dunn as the «PG of the Future».

Failures moan that successful people get their breaks not through their own efforts but through some vague notion of dumb «luck» When we were humiliated 6 - 0 by Chelsea, they played during the weekdays but we didn't.

No doubt we shot poorly throughout the game, but the second I think was caused more by Miami then just dumb luck.

The temptation is to see him as a frustrating character in a Guy Clark ballad, someone whose passions keep him grasping at failure but who, by dumb luck, succeeds.

Columbia, however, is living a charmed life — only Ospina's saves, clear ref errors, a decent defense and dumb luck have allowed them good results.

That's not dumb luck.

Rosberg endured racing demons in 2016 - when he beat Hamilton outright at places like Monza and Singapore, there was always seemingly another reason for this, be it engine conspiracy or dumb luck.

2 of our goals were dumb luck.

His twin sister has ADHD, and by God's grace and just dumb luck, I am handling it well — so far.

The crazy thing is that once they were no longer running and young and stupid and had access to hospitals, she continued to trust in dumb luck when there was no need to.

Dumb luck would be not researching anything about labor, delivering at a hospital, and having a completely intervention free labor.

What we experienced was pure dumb luck.

That the number of cases is likely to remain fairly small is dumb luck.

But there's also just dumb luck.

Yet dumb luck, well - exploited, isn't dumb; or, as Narod puts it, if a person can «take advantage of dumb luck, it becomes smart luck.»

«For the first time, this allows us to begin the process of designing and synthesizing new anesthetics based on where and how they work rather than on serendipity and sheer dumb luck,» said Neil Harrison, PhD, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study, which was carried out in collaboration with Adron Harris, PhD, (UC Denver) and colleagues Eric Greenblatt at Pennsylvania and John Mihic, now at Wake Forest University.

Colin Firth's successful movie career is down to «dumb luck».

The Emmy Award - winning, and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Tony Award - nominated actor could be still coasting on the success of his turn as the lead of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, which came to an end in 2014, and which felt like the gilded cherry atop a career cake that has encompassed everything from The Purple Rose of Cairo to Dumb and Dumber, The Hours, Good Night, and Good Luck and The Squid and the Whale.

s the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations continue to dominate the news, a movie like «Margin Call» is only going to help stoke the flames, even if it was sheer dumb luck that the protests coincided with its theatrical release.

It's also because it suggests that something happened primarily because of blind chance or dumb luck.

But even factoring in everything, there is also the matter of sheer, dumb luck and how cruel it can be.

Many first - time Hunters muscle their way through to a fight, struggle with the notoriously unresponsive manual camera, get the stuffing knocked out of them and conclude, savagely, that the game is a ponderous, superficial button - masher with a high element of dumb luck.

Oh, sure, he gets an «A» for effort (and for Ant - Man), but whereas much of his success owes to imagination and dumb luck, Hope is a highly trained combatant, and very possibly a born leader.

Wymark as the inspector is the central character, who's the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes, trying to figure out the perpetrator of the violent crimes more by hit and miss and dumb luck than with logic and deduction.

Someday I will give 9 a chance but not island tour, I've seen those stupid boards they are so luck base and that is so dumb.

Even on the brink of rescue, nothing is easy and miscalculations, as well as just plain dumb bad luck doom that enterprise.

Even when Fabious is away on a quest to kill this or that mythical beast in service of the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the brothers» father King Tallious (Charles Dance) never stop praising his elder son, while wondering how Thadeous could so royally screw up a peace treaty with a nearby dwarf tribe (shown in the opening scene, which, through its display of Thadeous» dumb luck in escaping hanging due to dwarf - sized engineering, is the movie's funniest).

I'd love to say it was all by design, but some of it was dumb luck.

Whether or not T - stat replacement was indicated, that might have diagnosed your problem, even if by costly dumb luck.

The steep slopes fill the windshield with blue sky and picking a decent line among the dips and humps is more than dumb luck.

«It was just dumb luck that we had the world's biggest showroom — the New York World's Fair — as a launching pad.

However I am finding that dumb luck and word of mouth trump marketing strategies (great examples are Amanda Hocking and Quinn Loftis.....

Is their success the perfect confluence of writing skill, platform savvy, and maybe some pure, dumb luck?