Sentences with phrase «of dumb luck»

Interested parties such as myself advocate waiting a while yet to see if the cooling trend we predicted and which actually began more or less on time in 2010 continues as we believe it will or is just a bit of dumb luck and turns around soon.

Balls move and bounce around the table with a convincing sense of weight and momentum making shots a case of skill and judgement instead of dumb luck and a lot of hoping.

There's a bit of dumb luck involved too.

And that may be because your manager has great skill and discipline, and is able to continue to beat the market... or it may be because of dumb luck.

If students do well at stock - picking exercises it's almost surely because of dumb luck, yet their «success» may encourage them to think that investing is a form of gambling, rather than a prudent way to grow the money they've saved.

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.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

He survived because of some sheer, dumb luck.

They move piles of money around, their vast personal riches gained either through graft or 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.

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».

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.

The Bengals can probably credit luck for part of that since the fight at their practice started with Vontaze Burfict diving at Gio Bernard's knees, which ranks as the dumbest fight in any camp so far.

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.

2 of our goals were dumb luck.

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

Those first two gray whale pioneers, which threaded their way through the icy labyrinth of the Northwest Passage into the North Atlantic, accomplished this feat by dumb luck, according to Alter.

By dumb bad luck, all the other Mars meteorites had originated from the dry parts of the planet.

That changed during a moment of «dumb luck» on November 25 as Galileo passed within 300 kilometers of Io, says Galileo team member Laszlo Keszthelyi of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dumb luck and word of mouth, sure.

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.

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

Every writer faces a moment in her career when she realizes that a good part of success has nothing to do with skill or planning, and everything to do with pure, dumb luck.

But i question whether sweeping any such ambitious under the rug of «100 % dumb luck» is appropriate in the publishing age that is dawning now.

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

It's hard to determine if that performance was a matter of skill... or pure, dumb luck.

(For more on his own example of how «dumb luck» in real estate gave him more rewards than all his hard work earning a PhD, see my column: «Interest rates stay the same, so do hot housing prices.»)

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.

Now the reality is no one will consistently miss all the worst days — I'm the first guy to admit our 100 % Cash call the day before the flash crash was dumb luck — but you can avoid being long for most of a secular bear market.

As we see now that risk was very significant, and just by pure dumb luck, I missed a lot of the pain.

The effort to identify and hire only «superior investment managers» is highly uncertain, usually futile, and subject to a great deal of error and dumb luck.