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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Sep 17, 2025
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
You make your Own luck.
I happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I was in the right place at the right time.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The harder I work the more I live.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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