"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Unknown (tons of attributions) While some things are just random chance

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Unknown (tons of attributions) While some things are just random chance -- who your parents are, where you're born, etc -- but most things in life don't come from luck, much as we like to ascribe things to it. Most of the time it comes from hard work and -- probably more importantly -- tenacity. I've been "lucky" in a lot of ways, namely who has seen my work and decided to write about it, who's decided to hire me because of it, etc, but at the end of the day there were a dozen failures for every success. If I hadn't stuck at it, I never would've "gotten lucky".