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Fortune favors the prepared mind.


Louis Pasteur
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb
I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
Darren Shan
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I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.


Al Unser
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Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand - I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence - and peace of mind.
Sebastian Stan
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It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.
Ronald Harwood
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
Martin Mull
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.


James Joyce
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
Edward Hoagland
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A lot happens by accident in poetry.


Howard Nemerov
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One does not become a guru by accident.


James Fenton
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.


Jeff Bezos
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Be prepared and be honest.


John Wooden
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.


Gail Sheehy
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.


Mark Van Doren
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.


James D. Watson
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.


Quincy Jones
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.


Henry Adams
I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Mimi Kennedy