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Re: 1114: Absolutely stunning record over the last few years
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Originally Posted by AcesJames
..., I firmly believe, and my mentors continually remind me that, the championship is about 50% luck.
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Luck is produced when preparation collides energetically with opportunity. You may not be able to predict the opportunity, but you can certainly control the preparation.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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Elevator speeches too - everyone should have one. - Swan217 [more] 
13-04-2011, 22:12
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