Accomplishment Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accomplishment Accounts Genius Given Intelligence Luck Mediocre Success Tag
Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him? — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Lucky Means Who Get The Opportunity. Brilliant Means Who Create The Opportunity. Winner Means Who Use The Opportunity. So, Be A Winner Always. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Lucky means who gets the opportunity. Brilliant means who create the opportunity. Winner means who use the opportunity. Be a winner always. — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
I'm not always right, but I learn from my mistakes and make it a productive experience — Carson Kolhoff Copy Share Image
Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I expected college to feel like a major accomplishment. I walked across the stage, eight months pregnant with my almost seven-year-old daughter watching in… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image