„There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.“
— Oprah Winfrey
„Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning!“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.“
— Oprah Winfrey
„To this I can only reply as follows: Your point of view — taken as theoretical possibility — is incontestable. For me, however, the expectation that the adequate formulation of the universal laws involves the use of all conceptual elements which are necessary for a complete description, is more natural. It is furthermore not at all surprising that, by using an incomplete description, (in the main) only statistical statements can be obtained out of such description. If it should be possible to move forward to a complete description, it is likely that the laws would represent relations among all the conceptual elements of this description which, per se, have nothing to do with statistics.“
— Albert Einstein
„Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck.“
— Richard Bach