"Chance favors the prepared mind.
You show up, you keep working and hopefully you catch a break."
This is how they invented the wheel. Discovered how to make fire. Arrowheads. Clay pots made of sand. Silicon chips. Made of sand.
The quote belongs to Howard Dean, interviewed in the Sunday, Nov. 17, 2008, NY Times magazine, an article by Matt Bai entitled "The Other Winner," referring to the Obama victory. Dean insisted on grass-roots political organizing, instead of burying voters with yet more TV ads w/o the grass-roots organizing.
I've filed this under 'Fate,' incidentally.
Why?
Because fate is the word we give to dreaded outcomes we've taken precautions to prevent.
Like boats sinking, for example. Do you know how much effort goes into preventing a boat from sinking?
Can you imagine how many boats have sunk?
Fate.
You leave one little thing open, make one little mistake, one thing you you didn't take care or, or ignored and down you go, like a rock thrown into the sea, which is a line from St. Louis Woman or the St. Louis Blues.
The chance that favors the prepared mind is the opposite side of the coin of Fate. You heard it here first!