Sentences with phrase «own dumb luck»

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.

He survived because of some sheer, dumb luck.

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

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

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.

Just dumb luck.

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

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.)

Call it dumb luck or call it grace (same thing?)

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.

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.

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).

«Make that blind, dumb luck,» corrected Mary Jane.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits «dumb luck» for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.

«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.

I stumbled upon a very similar training system (by my own creativity and dumb luck) a couple years back.

To their credit (or just dumb luck?)

Dating success often comes down to dumb luck.

A century later, the filmmaker seems more leftist, saving Beth from Davis» fate as a satirical target, when by dumb luck, she spots Freeway from her airplane seat, and becomes an accidental hero by concocting a fake emergency to fool the pilots into landing.

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

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.

Dumb luck, indeed.

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