The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.
– George Plya
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- Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior. – Daya Kudari
- In trees, monkeys rule;on land, lions rule;in the sky, eagles rule;in the waters, whales rule. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. – Gregory Maguire
- Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. – Jim George
- Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason’s night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right! – Lewis Carroll
- If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave. – Caitlin Moran
- Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring.What’s the first rule?Food runs. If you don’t want to be food, don’t run. – Deanna Raybourn
- Take a second look at what you are about to do… A second look prevents a second chance. – Israelmore Ayivor
- The greatest discovery is self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body – Ken M
- I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose. – Vladimir Lorchenkov
- If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Then I thought, boy, isn’t that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad. – Sharon Creech
- Forget the threat of Hell’s infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait – for an eternity – Sharon Kay Penman
- A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck. – Dhiraj Das
- Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed. – Stephen King
- Good luck is abnormalbad luck is common – Yarro Rai
- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
- my dearin an idea, by an idea, living through in idea, we are our own prisoners . – litymunshi
- An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. – Nathan McCall
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. – Jack Dorsey
- No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness. – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- On the bright side, I’m sure this isn’t the last time you’ll ever get firebombed, so maybe you’ll have better luck next time. – Janet Evanovich
- That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language. – Ross King
- Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam. – CP Klapper
- Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one’s remembrance (one forgets the world till that time). – Dada Bhagwan
- Don’t eat till you’re full, eat till you’re tired. – Andrew Zimmern
- But then all writers smoke, don’t they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy? – TC Boyle
- To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. – Alex Flinn
- Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?--œNo, I am not afraid.--œThen come sit next to me.- ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred – Amanda Leigh
- There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information. – Tahir Shah
- My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes. – MF Moonzajer
- Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. – APJ Abdul Kalam
- Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you – Shannon s
- Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him. – Patrick Yee