The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that those who are self-sufficient and prepared tend to create their own opportunities, rendering luck unnecessary.
Robert Penn Warren's quote emphasizes the idea that success and favorable outcomes are often the result of hard work, preparation, and self-reliance, rather than sheer chance. It implies that individuals who have the confidence and skill to take charge of their own lives are less likely to depend on luck, as they naturally create scenarios where they can thrive.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire young entrepreneurs.
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youβve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
So little time we live in Time,_x000D_ _x000D_ And we learn all so painfully,_x000D_ _x000D_ That we may spare this hour's term_x000D_ _x000D_ To practice for Eternity.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
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