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If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
Success
You
Game
Better
Odds
Control
Down
Luck
Easier
Bad
Find
Stay
Drill
Part
Most
Make
Always
Discover
Huge
Huge Part
Any
Move
Story
Success Story
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
Gary Numan
Good
Business
Wish
Sense
Range
Distinctive
More
Voice
Glad
Had
Powerful
Greater
Got
Hand
Very
Times
Accurate
Useful
Useful Thing
Lucky
Thing
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
George Will
Great
Better
Recession
Liberalism
Worse
Crisis
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Deliberately
Accelerate
Understands
Fiscal
Which
Create
Aggravated
Useful
Useful Thing
Believing
Thing
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
Olivia Colman
Time
Good
You
Together
Happy
Sometimes
Sadness
Comedy
Salt
Think
Everyone
Bit
Would
Like
Well
Go
Dull
Quite
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
Imagine
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.
Rosemary Mahoney
Life
Best
You
Experience
People
Joy
Honor
Will
Picture
Real Life
Think
Intrigue
Possible
Reconstruct
Color
Writer
Most
Protest
Making
Real
Subjects
May
Interested
Them
Your
Useful
Useful Thing
Fullest
Thing
Hardship
Portrait
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
Rumaan Alam
Immaterial
Writer
Exchange
Between
Particular
Genre
Reader
Texts
Useful
Useful Thing
Organizing
Thing
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
Stephen Dunn
Me
Thought
Parents
Young
Think
Bit
Would
Haunted
Something
Both
Because
Always
Been
Die
Suspect
Died
Mid
Little
Little Bit
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
Early
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo
God
Man
Philosophy
Religions
Narrow
Limits
Doing
Plane
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
Necessary