People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Interpretation
Luck plays a role in opportunities, but success depends on talent and skill.
In this quote, Frank Sinatra emphasizes that while luck can provide opportunities, it is ultimately an individual’s talent and ability to utilize it that determine their success. The notion of 'luck' is downplayed, suggesting that it is less about chance and more about preparation and skill when seizing opportunities.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career opportunities.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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