prepared mind Quotes

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Chance favours the trained mind.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." And I think that says it the way I believe it.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.