Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 13, 2020

It’s like “Good things come to those who pray, as long as they work very hard while praying.”

I think you can ride a borrowed unicycle… assuming you can ride one at all, of course. I can’t even balance a two-wheel cycle unless it’s moving forward…

A confluence of skills and opportunity along with the perspicacity to act. Yup. Ya learn it and then ya use it (or ya lose it). We only recognize real opportunities to act when we are prepared

I think he means that luck is falling on your rear instead of your face.

Just remember to grab your (unicycle) seat as you fall.

I suppose you could rent or borrow a unicycle.

Being able to ride a vehicle with only one wheel isn’t only the result of hard work. It includes the other component of success – perseverance. But then that applies to almost every success.

Most people who do things like ride unicycles or juggle have a knack for it in the first place, otherwise the learning process is just frustration.

Hard work is not luck. Hard work creates luck

luck is independent of hard work, it just happens.

Major scientific breakthrus are less often accompanied by “Eureka!” than by “That’s funny …”.

But the researcher had to know thru lots of experience what wasn’t an oddity.

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen, addressing the importance of just catching the right breaks: “If all it took was good records and good press, Robert Fripp would constantly top the charts”