“Luck is often just skill expressing itself without the brain’s consent.”

“There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”

“Today, i learned something. "Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope." This expression has deep meaning -turtleBasically, it means that good things and bad things are often interwined, like strands of a rope. You can have one without the other. So even if something bad happens, it's nothing to get worried about. Because life will provide the balance. -Ootake”

“It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.”

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”

“It takes vast willpower, luck, and skill to be the first. But it takes a gigantic heart to be number two.”