People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Interpretation
Luck plays a role in opportunities, but success depends on talent and skill.
In this quote, Frank Sinatra emphasizes that while luck can provide opportunities, it is ultimately an individual’s talent and ability to utilize it that determine their success. The notion of 'luck' is downplayed, suggesting that it is less about chance and more about preparation and skill when seizing opportunities.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career opportunities.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
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