To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no,… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign. — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
