The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that those who are self-sufficient and prepared tend to create their own opportunities, rendering luck unnecessary.
Robert Penn Warren's quote emphasizes the idea that success and favorable outcomes are often the result of hard work, preparation, and self-reliance, rather than sheer chance. It implies that individuals who have the confidence and skill to take charge of their own lives are less likely to depend on luck, as they naturally create scenarios where they can thrive.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire young entrepreneurs.
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youβve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
So little time we live in Time,_x000D_ _x000D_ And we learn all so painfully,_x000D_ _x000D_ That we may spare this hour's term_x000D_ _x000D_ To practice for Eternity.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere.
The time for your labor has been granted.
It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
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