Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Love
  • Age
  • Dream

• I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Family

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • First
  • Enthusiastic

• I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

  

  Halsey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Punk

• I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Believe
  • Business
  • City

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • People
  • Day
  • Taken

• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Live
  • Forever
  • Jazz

• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Man

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • May

• This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Life
  • Sleep

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation