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OT: What does Luck smell like?

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3 months 2 weeks ago #33285 by HawkErrant
Answer I like (acknowledging there may be more than one answer) -

Luck has the smell of perspiration.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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3 months 2 weeks ago - 3 months 2 weeks ago #33286 by hoshi
"The harder I work, the luckier I get." was my mother's favorite advice to me and my brother growing up. I have passed it on to my kids and grandkids.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits”. Albert Einstein
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3 months 2 weeks ago #33290 by Bayhawk
Who said:
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity ?

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The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
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3 months 2 weeks ago - 3 months 2 weeks ago #33291 by USAF Jayhawk
Danny Manning :)

But I doubt he was the first...

edit: Most often attributed to Roman philosopher Seneca
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3 months 2 weeks ago #33292 by HawkErrant

Bayhawk wrote: Who said:
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity ?

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I know it was a favorite of Roy’s when he was at Kansas.
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