Hoje me aconteceu uma coisa que muitas pessoas chamariam de golpe de sorte. Eu mesma me senti sortuda. Mas quando caminhava para o metrô, depois de receber a boa notícia, eu já sabia que não era sorte.

As pessoas usam a idéia de “sorte” e “azar” para se consolar de sua própria incompetência ou de sua impossibilidade de ação. Não existe sorte nem azar. Existe pensamento, planejamento, preparação e ação. Existe oportunidade - e senso de oportunidade. Quem sabe se preparar, pensar, planejar, percebe oportunidades e age no momento certo é que tem “sorte”.

Hoje eu tive muita sorte, porque trabalhei muito duro mais de um ano para obter essa sorte.

“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”
- Tennessee Williams

“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.”
- Frank Sinatra

“Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president’s office. ‘He’s lucky’,’ an envious person remarks. ‘He gets the breaks; they’re always in his favor’.’ In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ‘luck’ usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ‘pull’, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.”
- Kenneth Hildebrand

“Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.”
- Provérbio Árabe

“A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes”
- Provérbio grego

“Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.”
- R. H. Blyth

Now listening: “Nothing can stop me now” - Nine Inch Nails

O vídeo abaixo faz parte do DVD “Closure”.

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