“One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he’s a genius.” — Iain Banks, Matter
Tag: luck
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“While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give ‘luck’ a chance to operate.” — Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth
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“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” — Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
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“Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.” — Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” Chicago Tribune (1997-06-01)
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“Life is not so bad, if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.” — Christopher Isherwood, The Wishing Tree
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“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day’s receipts.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
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“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.” — Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
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“Good luck always brings merit, but merit very seldom brings good luck.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
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“A rabbit’s foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.” — Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams of a Cynic
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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