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Comment author: Stabilizer 29 April 2013 10:37:31PM 10 points [-]

"Deserve your luck by exploiting it."

Inspired from:

If we succeed in recalling a formerly solved problem which is closely related to our present problem, we are lucky. We should try to deserve such luck; we may deserve it by exploiting it.

-George Polya, How to Solve It.

I love the inversion. You can deserve your luck post hoc, not just a priori.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 May 2013 07:38:06AM 0 points [-]

Which goes back to the phrases "luck is 99% preparation/perspiration".

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