Sentences with phrase «than luck»

Two players could stand side by side and hit the attack button simultaneously but it seemed like nothing more than luck of the draw as to which one of the players were actually hit.

Some enemies take a little more work than others to take down, and it's usually a matter of skill rather than luck with is something I really appreciate in games these days.

We need more than luck tonight, we need a miracle!

There is more to this equation than luck and a lack of fear.

Surely this kind of return over a relatively long period of time needs a better explanation than luck.

For instance, investors are known to attribute skill rather than luck to an analyst that picks a winning stock.

While I understand where you're coming from, I think it takes more than luck to find good stuff at the thrift store.

Nothing other than luck distinguishes the survivors, Wake said.

Another change comes in relation to Heroes, with each of these now unlocked through skill rather than the luck of a pickup find out in the battlefield.

If you're looking for a new type of CCG that relies more on strategy than luck, Duelyst should definitely be given a chance.

Andrew «played better than Luck on Monday Night» Pollack accounted for 3 TDs and Mike «yung» Gutman played stellar all night long as well.

It's safe to say there's more skill than luck over that time» Li Lu

However, as a three - time Terlingua champion, we believe there's more than luck involved with her chili.

It connotes a wish for good luck but clearly implies that more effort than luck is necessary.

What I do know is that Matt Hasselback, who was pretty damn sick at the time, went out there and looked better against the Texans than Luck has looked pretty much all season.

Douglas Wiens, a geophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the 2012 expedition, also hopes for clues to whether anything more than luck explains the lack of giant earthquakes at the Mariana Trench.

Patience and practice get your further than luck.

Persistent success is strong evidence of skill rather than luck generating a given set of results.

So even Samuelson deep down must have thought that some business owners (i.e. stock pickers) are better than others (skill was more important than luck).

Random encounters being random can cause you to hit a brick wall and the game and renders the game nothing more than a luck based affair.

The defendants in these cases claimed that poker takes more brains than luck to win, a distinction that would exempt them from gambling laws in 37 states.

unlocked through skill rather than the luck of a pickup find out in the battlefield.

Perseverance will serve you much better than luck.

In other words, they want to find factors that reflect ability rather than luck.

We are going to need more than luck.

DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

we had great players, good ones and not so good but definitely enough material for a real shot to the title, instead every year the same injuries, referees, bad luck anything but the truth, AW is done he just doesn't have it anymore and must retire, still honorably and have a new coach with fresh ideas revamp this team... other than that

Or the team could go for the first down, essentially replacing the onside kick with an offensive play that requires more skill than luck.

There could be a case to argue if incorrect refereeing decisions kept going against you (as they did with West Ham last season) that you have been the victim of misfortune; but if it is simply your players not being able to do there job effectively (e.g. by converting goal - scoring opportunities) then this is a reflection of ability or coaching rather than luck.

I do not consider myself lucky — I consider myself blessed — It takes more than luck to achieve what we have since September 2002.

We are lucky (though I know it's more than luck), that it isn't just the two of us, but that we also have God on our side.

If you've ventured into the wild waters of the Irish dating scene, you'll probably agree that meeting that special someone needs a lot more than the luck of the Irish.

In her sixth book, author and dating coach Taylor B. Jones says women who are interested in attracting and developing long - term dating relationships with affluent men need more than luck or an alluring body type.

Like the core series, guards typically follow the same pattern unless they're interrupted, making infiltration a matter of skill rather than luck.

The Toronto - based shop behind a mobile smash is relying on strategy rather than luck to induce lightning to strike a second time

It's about hard work more than luck and about writing until your fingers bleed, but you can make it.

In fact, I got angry once at a workshop of students who just shrugged off my success as nothing more than luck and me being me.

The only surefire way to determine if a mutual fund manager has more investment skill than luck is to measure his or her performance through a full market cycle of three to five years.

It's only human nature to attribute good results to our own skill rather than luck.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

However, when they are successful, these investors irrationally attribute success disproportionately to their ability rather than luck, leading investors to overestimate their own abilities and trade too aggressively; even investors with more past failures than successes may become overconfident by over-weighting their successes.

This is not to denigrate some great investors out there, who have clearly delivered spectacular results (& who genuinely appear to owe more to skill than luck).