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“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.”

People Men Winning Ability Luck Esteem True Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.”

Believe Turns Ability Luck Don't Believe Diligent Lax

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”

People May Doe Said Play Certain Games Ability Roles Talent Lucky Skills Luck Surface Physics Cards Habitual Parameters Hidden Talents

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”

Ability Situation Skills Resources Luck Distance Landscape Underestimate Interiors Temperament Unspoken Unnoticed

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

Thinking Men Opportunity Chance Ability Break Advantage Luck

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.”

Helping Ability Fate Ambition Luck Fingers Great Things Fickle

Author:Fergus Henderson

“I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.”

Thinking Littles Long Made Reason Body Care Able Lasts Ability Player Blessed Luck Little Things Athleticism

Author:Champ Bailey

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”

People Thinking Way Wells Two Ability Trouble Safe Demand Labor Tragedy Luck Brilliant Absence Guts Pessimism Smarter Recognizing Live Well Happy People

Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story