As with ALL things good and bad luck ..good and bad timing will have its
effect (everything and everyone is subject to it) but ability..hard work..
mental toughness and PASSION will come through
Cheers Zach
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From: "Janet Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [racebase] A beautiful ride & Luck
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> On 4/10/05 12:34 AM, "Gilbert Dymock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I immediately thought tough break, but couldn't help also thinking
>> "Welcome
>> to the sort of luck the rest of us have, pal".
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>> Gil
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> As I get older I find I am tending to skim thru emails and you made your
> email long enuff to cause me to start skimming Gil .... But I have to say
> here that if there is such a thing as luck I don't believe it has much of
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> effect on someone like Tiger Woods. I read an article once where he had
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> dissatisfied with his drives off the tee in a certain game and after the
> 18th he went straight back out to the practice tee and did a thousand
> drives. That sort of attitude does'nt suggest luck to me ... That
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> to me a huge amount of hard work and although I would only class myself as
> about half way successful I would put none of it down to luck .... The
> opposite in fact as I was coming up thru the sharemilking chain and on
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> to farm ownership and on into retirement. And of all the people I know who
> were only half way like me and some of the ones who are all the way I
> can't
> think of one of them who didn't work their butts off to get what they
> have.
> And more significantly the wife part of the partnerships worked just as
> hard
> and were just as focused. As for lucky punters I don't believe that either
> ... What looks lucky is putting in the hard yards researching etc and what
> appears to be bad luck ... Is not putting in the hard yards . Geeeez
> .... I was sure focussed had two esses at the right hand end ..... Muz
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