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.
The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.
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