Sentences with phrase «effort than luck»

It connotes a wish for good luck but clearly implies that more effort than luck is necessary.

Not exact matches

i think making money off of a blog at this point probably requires a lot of luck but also more than a full - time job's - worth of effort, honestly.

Other than that, it could be a change of formation (which is unlikely), and of course a large amount of conviction and effort (luck).

Working from a tight, uncompromisingly bleak script by Jonathan Bernstein (The Spy Next Door) and James Greer (Just My Luck), the director follows up last summer's Logan Lucky with another genre - bending, self - financed effort that has more going on just underneath the surface than initially meets the eye.

The start was about two million less than Clooney's last film as director — the comedy Leatherheads (this new effort has had better reviews - read ours), and the political aspect has more in common with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck.

Thankfully, his latest directorial effort appears to be more «Good Night, and Good Luck» than «Leatherheads,» and it doesn't hurt that he's surrounded himself with such an incredible ensemble cast.

With any luck, it may also start to wean more than a few would - be reformers from their affection for weak brews like mayoral control and merit pay and towards more muscular efforts to dismantle, rethink, or bypass familiar schools and systems.

When students connect success to personal effort, rather than ability or luck, they are more likely to be motivated to learn.

They see how much work it is to craft a meaningful platform, to understand who their readers are, to do something more than the «best practices,» so they make token efforts and go back to waiting for luck to happen.

Those experiencing this phenomenon may attribute their success to luck, uncharacteristic effort, or some other temporary cause, rather than their own ability or intelligence.