Quote by Robertson Davies
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things ha

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies

Other quotes by Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

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Future
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He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. – Robertson Davies

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Journalism
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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life. – Robertson Davies

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez

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Luck

Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

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Luck

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. – Lord Beaverbrook

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Luck

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. – Coleman Cox

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Luck

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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