I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Interpretation
Luck is not merely chance; it is created through action and opportunity.
In this quote, Tom Brokaw emphasizes the idea that individuals have the power to shape their own circumstances and outcomes by taking initiative and pursuing opportunities. Believing in personal agency, he suggests that avoiding opportunities is a significant error, as every chance taken can lead to personal growth and success.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a business seminar.
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
The world does not pay men for that which they βknowβ. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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