"Iâ€™m a believer in luck and think the social conditions youâ€™re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose Iâ€™ve been lucky."

-- Sigmar Polke

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.”
“One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.”
“It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.”
“Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “A Knight Of The Word: The Word and the Void: Book Two”, p.124, Hachette UK
“The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.”
“Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.”
“It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.”
“I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.”

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