“People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.” PeopleMadeEnoughValuesCausesLuckyBreathsPropertyFarmsHogVicinity Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.” WritingYearsFirstsMadeBookThreeFiveLuckyHusbandFive YearsThree YearsHousewife Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.” PeopleBelieveMadeBigsAbleSchoolVoiceDifferencesFashionTaughtLuckyFaithfulBelieve In YouBeing FaithfulPivotalGivenchy Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger.” IfsMadeChallengesMistakeBreakLuckyTestsTreatsStrongerWho You AreBitterSmarterMake Or Break Author:Donn Moomaw
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.” IfsWayMadeSaidAgeSpiritualCommunityTeacherLove YouLuckyOnly LoveGreat TeacherLucky YouSpiritual Community Author:Anne Lamott