“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Attributed in Laura Haddock (1931), Steps Upward in Personality
Misattributed
Variant: I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
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Carlo Beenakker
(1960) Dutch physicist
... (een flits van inzicht) komt nooit vanzelf, in de zin dat je er geen moeite voor hoeft te doen. Je moet je er echt wel voor inspannen. Er is een mooi spreekwoord voor: “toeval schiet de voorbereide geest te hulp”.
Zo’n inzicht komt wel toevallig, maar je krijgt het alleen als je bent voorbereid. Het inzicht komt niet vanzelf.
In Interview with Professor Carlo Beenakker. Interviewers: Ramy El-Dardiry and Roderick Knuiman (February 1, 2006).
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(1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
Mumia Abu-Jamal
(1954) Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist
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“On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.”
Tori Amos
(1963) American singer
Richard Ames; chapter 3, p. 27
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)