Luck Is Preparation Meeting Opportunity Essay

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The quote from Oprah Winfrey, "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity", is a fragile quote, due to how an individual takes the context of it. I personally as the reader of the quote took it in two ways; one: There is no such thing as luck but if you prepare yourself you will find the opportunity on your own, two: If you prepare yourself the opportunity will come from luck. Digging deeper into the quote you either going to take it as you believe in luck or you don 't. Personally I believe luck is a meth, now a days in this life you have to work for what you have. A perfect example of this is your paycheck, a paycheck is not free money you had to earn that money and work hard.

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By preparing you are creating your own “luck” but there are still people living in this day and age that believe you shouldn’t be humble towards your self so they will give luck the credit instead of taking the credit they deserve because they worked for there situations. Going back to the example of a paycheck, when you look at your bank and you see a direct deposit of a thousand dollars was added to your account do you say, “yes I got lucky and got a thousand dollar pay check,” probably not you think in your head, “I worked hard for that thousand dollars.”

Weather you agree with Oprah’s quote or your like me and believe you work and make your own luck. You can keep giving credit to luck even though you worked for that luck or you can say, “I did that”, or “I earned that”. Now think how you will take the quote and not the shortened quote, “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”, but the quote in its entirely, “I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn 't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn 't have been 'lucky’.” What are you going to make

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