"You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck."

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Source : "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

Ian Rankin

#Hard Work Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Luck Quotes

“That is not a drug. It's a leaf.”
“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.”
“Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.”
“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Source : "The Imitation of Christ. Book I, ch. 16". Book by Thomas a Kempis, 1418.
“At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.”
“We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.”
“I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.”

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