human
What's the idea, Anthony? You're wrong, but--what is it?
gpt
My idea, said the proprietor of Fry's Imperial Liniment slowly,
human
Meaning?
gpt
That failure does not of necessity imply incapacity or ineptitude--or success any tremendous capability, in many cases, for that matter. Taken by and large, we are all made of much the same stuff, you know. The trouble lies in the failure of the plain, average, reasonably stupid citizen to recognize opportunity's one solitary knock! Anthony smiled, growing himself more interested by the second.
human
Now, if opportunity were but decent enough to knock twice, at least double the number of striving humans would recognize her nearness and grasp her. If she could bring herself to knock three times, say, our successes would be tripled. If----
gpt
And if she knocked a thousand times in succession, everybody'd be a millionaire,
human
Something like that, smiled Anthony.
gpt
The chap who does know opportunity, recognizes her mainly by accident, I honestly believe. Now, if we could but take each man and place opportunity before him and hold her there until he fully understood that she was present, the word failure would be omitted from the dictionaries a generation hence.