Sentences with phrase «n't dumb luck»

This wasn't dumb luck, but the result of a strategy, based on years of marketing experience.

That's not dumb luck.

Not exact matches

It's not just dumb luck, it's work.»

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.

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

God didn't turn your life around, dumb luck and marrying a rich man turned your life around.

According to a «big bang» theory, it just so happened randomly via dumb luck but our best and brightest can't create a cotton - pickin thing using their own dead materials / elements.

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».

As fortune had it, we came up short in both matches, not necessarily due to Wenger's lack of tactical nous, but due to sheer dumb luck.

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.

But I don't credit magical birth preparations (I took no preparation other than standard OB care and showing up in labor), I credit dumb luck and my doctor's training and skill.

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

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.»

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.

These outlaws don't get away with crime on pure dumb luck.

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

At every turn, just at the exact moment you think things can't possibly go further off the rails — they do, in a whitewater - swift cascade of errors, goofs, foul - ups, bad luck, dumb luck, happy accidents and miraculous flukes.

You can't count on fortune and fame any more than you can count on being at the right place at the right time OR pure, dumb luck, but you CAN count on doing things the right way (quality editing, a solid cover design, etc.) so that you've got a better chance of doors opening for you.

This position may still play out positively, but it will just be pure dumb LUCK (something we hope for in investing but know not to count on).

For when he looked around him, at the books and the tennis court and the folk art on the walls — when he contemplated the countless millions that Niederhoffer had made over the years — he could not escape the thought that it might all have been the result of sheer, dumb luck.

Mutual funds have some great years, extraordinary years, that can't be explained by dumb luck.

But so would dumb luck — remember, alpha indicates outperformance or underperformance, but it doesn't explain what caused it.

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.

Our weekly new game roundup doesn't happen until tomorrow, but developer Dumb Luck Games launched their new title Retro Highway [Free] at such an odd time (as far as mobile game releases are concerned, anyway) that I wanted to make sure that it didn't slip through the cracks.

A success model that doesn't rely solely on the unlikelihood of outrageously good fortune or plain, dumb luck?

You don't grab on to whatever contrafactual theory you prefer and hope that history vindicates you by dumb luck.

As the mayor of the mill town of Springfield, Oregon, told the New York Times shortly after logging restrictions came into effect to protect the spotted owl, «It wasn't blind, dumb luck that helped us land Sony; the company wanted a pristine place on the river.»

I have determined that what goes for volcanic cooling is not caused by the volcano but by dumb luck.

The researchers behind the ominous study basically discounted their own efforts by suggesting that any evidence or experience that didn't support their projections could be dismissed because they would be based on dumb «luck.»

However, we can not attribute the woman's actual win 90 % to the trend (the man had no trend so it is clearly dumb luck).

But it wasn't just dumb luck.

If it's not, it's just dumb luck on the attorney's part.

One HARO respondent told me, «I nearly always dumb down the resume but I haven't had much luck — rarely the interviewer would like to have more info so I end up sending more.

I don't know what force protected me that morning — perhaps it was God almighty; maybe it was dumb luck — but there's not a week that goes by that I'm not grateful for my health and moments of good fortune such as that.

The only way that one who buys a home can actually make any money on that property, above and beyond inflation, is if one buys at the bottom of a price crash and thence sells at the price peak just before the bubble bursts, something that the average home owner can not do unless via pure dumb luck twice over.

Some people making mistakes will get bailed out by dumb luck with appreciation but that is gambling and not investing.