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“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

“A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.”

Eye Chance Advantage Atheist Deist

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.”

Want Persons Chance Advantage Letters

Book:Master of the Vineyard

Source: Master of the Vineyard

“I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.”

People Knows Writing Looks Bigs Chance Depends Advantage Meetings Favors Who I Am Doing Me Chance Meeting

Author:Paul Theroux

“There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.”

Should Sides Chance Talent Advantage

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.”

Ifs Men Life Is Chance Advantage Certainty Doing Right

Book:Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk

“we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.”

Shows Enjoy Chance Study Advantage Suicide Profession Chosen Shock Optimist Surviving Pessimist Exam

Book:The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

“We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.”

Thinking Looks Kind May Ideas Self Term Justice Chance Interesting Rights Equal Advantage Very Interesting Being Equal

Author:Nhat Hanh