"Luck is being ready for the chance."

-- J. Frank Dobie

#Athlete Quotes #Luck Quotes #Chance Quotes

“A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.”
“Heart and mind overcome all.”
“If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.”
“It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and simultaneously transcends the conditions of its making. I would say that is the difference between literature and other kinds of writing. That is what the literary is - it ultimately doesn't matter what his circumstances were. And the thing that you were just saying about being sympathetic to Brontë and the fact that she could only write what she wrote when she wrote it... that's true. But look at that novel, which means so much to so many people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.”
“And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.”

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