Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining…

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no…

— Paul Simon

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

— Leo Tolstoy

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

— Evelyn Waugh

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

To give importance to trifling matters.

— John Heywood

“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your…

— Cal Newport

We never realize the importance of any our action until we be the hunt of same situation in reaction.

— Fadi

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead