#tune

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. ↗

— John Barrow

#cost #element #everything #fortune #good

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#been #best #best work #fortune #france

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#errand #should #tunes #whistle #write

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#alternate #always #being #customers #feel

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#another #became #dissatisfied #fortune #i

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#being #constantly #decisively #discuss #done

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#fortunes #ideas #points