To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.


Patrick MacGill

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I just threw it up. Call it luck. Call it skill. I have no idea.
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Luck is another name for God.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Skill is just a way to influence luck in your favor more often.
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Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
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The more you work on refining your skill, the luckier you get at it.
ZENG HAN JUN
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
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Another word for creativity is courage
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Another word for tomorrow is mystery.
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Another word for hope is tomorrow.
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Another word for research is future.
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Another word for Humility is foolimity
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Another word for action is today.
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Another word for sex is details.
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Another word for marriage is endurance.
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Another word for humility is service.
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Another word for life is uncertain.
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Another word for life is persistence.
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Another word for gratitude is abundance.
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Another word for advertise is persuade.
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Another word for thinking is solution.
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I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
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The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT
I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT
More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT
All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT
As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT
I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
PATRICK DEMPSEY