Sentences with phrase «lucky breaks»

Certainly, I made a lot of mistakes and got some LUCKY breaks (market timing) in the my first 6 properties but I think I'm doing it better now in the last 3 properties I bought.

Those kinds of accomplishments are anything but lucky breaks.

I was fortunate enough to be able to use networking and some lucky breaks to get into the career I wanted with a minimum of effort.

It is because of The Career Experts that I get «first consideration» for these lucky breaks!

Absolutely, but I know how hard I worked for that luck, and the sacrifices I had to make before getting the «lucky breaks».

Through a series of lucky breaks, Kelley began working as a stunt man and actor on several major movies and television shows that were filmed in the Bay Area, including CBS's Nash Bridges.

Late in 1995 I had 2 very lucky breaks.

And of course, no matter where you live, riches are most likely to come to those who work ridiculously hard and get a few lucky breaks here and there.

In fact, one could argue that with my long career, no student debt and a bunch of other lucky breaks in life I should have piled up a much larger net worth by now.

You're bound to suffer unlucky setbacks — although hopefully you'll get some lucky breaks, too.

And some of them have got lucky breaks and some of them haven't.

Yes, some writers get lucky breaks.

As I mentioned in an interview with Joanna Penn over at the Creative Penn, I haven't experienced any major «lucky breaks» or spent any time at the tippy tops of the bestseller charts (lately, my debuts have been hanging out in the Top 20 of the Epic Fantasy category for a couple of weeks over at Amazon, but that's about as close as I can get to claiming to be a «bestseller»).

At 10, Lucky longs for a real mother, and as her story progresses through two sequels, Lucky Breaks (2009) and Lucky for Good (2011), she ponders the question: Does her father really hate her?

Johnson smiled, familiar with my impatient tendency to hope for early lucky breaks.

Teams that experience sporadic success often rely on a few star players or lucky breaks.

I think this film is 50 lucky breaks.

The early stuff, which recalls Paul Schrader's more grueling Hardcore, isn't bad, although the lucky breaks that crack the case open for Welles stretch credulity.

Filmmaker Atsuko Hirayanagi parlayed that, and the endless lucky breaks it generated, into a feature - length film that continues... Read More»

They were purchased through one of the Lucky Breaks deal at 50 % off, and I feel like this is just the start of my grown - up paper goods arsenal.

Lucky breaks aren't a thing.

Through a series of unplanned lucky breaks I now get to study how the cosmos operates, working with a combination of supercomputers and good old - fashioned pencil - and - paper equations.

«It is difficult, but I have always had extremely lucky breaks,» concludes Duhig.

But due to a couple of lucky breaks, they and their co-authors are the first to document the material's remarkable properties.

How can we distinguish between a hockey victory that's mostly down to talent and one that benefitted from lucky breaks?

And the surprisingly buoyant campaigns of Koster and Kander suggest how Democrats can compete in red America — and how a few lucky breaks may have given them a reprieve.»

They need to hold all of their seats and get a few lucky breaks along the way.

Although Chelsea have impressed in the early part of the season, they continue to have more than their share of lucky breaks.

Arsene Wenger is not very happy that some of Arsenal's rivals in the Premier League have had lucky breaks handed to them on a plate, while poor old Wenger has had to struggle for every penny he has earned for the Gunners in the last 20 years, and had to build the Emirates Stadium with his bare hands while being forced to sell all his best players.

They're still getting chances, but Italy are by far the better side right now, and even when Germany get lucky breaks — like the Thomas Müller - Marco Reus one - two that nearly set them up for a goal — the Italians can recover, with Balzaretti saving the day with an excellent slide tackle.

At the very best that's going to take a long time, because the position he was in for this fight came about by a lot of lucky breaks that rarely repeat themselves.

Sometimes you need lucky breaks and that Suns team never seemed to get them.

Always noticed when playing Madden that the team trailing in the 4th quarter would get a noticeable shift in game momentum and lucky breaks.

With a few lucky breaks like the crazy fake field goal attempt by Michigan, which ultimately led to an actual field goal before halftime, this game could have easily gone the other way.

OK, the Foxes had a couple of lucky breaks — the first goal, miles offside.

Republicans badly need a few lucky breaks to hold their House majority in November.

[In my career] the lucky breaks were from the sponsors who took a risk on me.»

There are a lot of people who are much smarter than I am, who are much more visionary thinkers, and who worked a lot harder, but who just didn't get the lucky breaks.

This includes the impact of chance opportunities, lucky breaks, and being in the right place at the right time.

In what would turn out to be a lucky break, the Mercedes» gas tank was almost empty.

Ironically, today Karpelès doesn't view the retrieval of the 200,000 Bitcoins as a lucky break.

In hindsight, that was a lucky break, Souq CEO Ronaldo Mouchawar says.

«I look back now and think I caught a lucky break.

Chances are they didn't get where they are because of a lucky break, but rather because they possess characteristics or a state of mind that sets them apart from people leading average lives.

However, Buffer had a lucky break in that this issue of a limited audience coincided with the integration, for their app, of Facebook and LinkedIn scheduling capabilities.

It can be tempting to imagine that all millionaires caught a lucky break or two along the way and that's why they achieved the success they have.

A lucky break can come with work but stay positive to see it through.

While almost every successful business venture owes some portion of its success to a lucky break, the luck - dominant business leaders strategically expose themselves to luck by developing organic, deep connections with a group of people and then having the open and optimistic outlook in life to be able to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.

But seeing a 60 % rise in an already expensive home was not my biggest lucky break.

«My story — which the only thing we can call it is a lucky break — is unfortunately not that uncommon in the economy today,» Hughes said.