Sentences with phrase «plain luck»

It can provide common sense advice, but sometimes a winning hand is based on just plain luck.
Passion for your subject, perseverance and just plain luck (or timing) has more to do with being published than raw talent.
He hunts through obsolete stock in ancient hardware stores, bribes industrial suppliers, wrangles, finagles, wheels, deals and plain lucks out.
David Choe is a well - known graffiti artist who happened to have some financial savvy or just plain luck.
It was just plain luck that neither investigation found a smoking gun that would have forced directors and the SEC to do something that none of them wanted to do: fire and bring charges against the nation's most valuable and celebrated CEO.
If you can get people to pay a high price, because of quality, public relations, high scores, marketing muscle, or just plain luck, well then, you've found the right price.
That blind second shot to the green henceforth required more divine guidance than plain luck.
I think maybe Campbell chased back and helped retrieve the ball a wee bit better than Ox did, but mostly I think it was just plain luck... bad choices / good choices from the countering team.
Winning, after all, is dependent on so many things outside the control of the players or the coach — such things as available talent, the quality of competition, injuries and just plain luck have a huge impact on a won - loss record.
This could be due to MANY things: genetics, activity, or just plain luck.
Listen to their stories: They are absolutely peppered with inside contacts, serendipity, and plain luck.
The stock market mechanic helps remove a lot of the random luck required to win Monopoly but still too much is just plain luck.
Through a fluke in timing or just plain luck, I'm fortunate enough to have now been behind the wheel of every single current Ferrari currently on sale.
Which goes to show just how much of this biz is just plain luck — on top of being a skilled craftsman who writes something theoretically publishable.
Are you sure that investors have «zero control» over their returns and that its «just plain luck»?
If you're not sure, I wish you would say something like «there are some who believe that it might be plain luck» or something like that.
It's just plain luck.
I've studied the historical stock - return data in great depth for over eight years now and I have not been able to find a single time in history when returns were «plain luck» or beyond investor control.
Because of seasonal and weather changes and just plain luck, we might not see every animal mentioned.
It may not be plain luck, but we've made plenty of mistakes and wanted to share them as well in the Blades of Revenge story.
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