cue the cricket noises(I meet these folks too, and I blind them with the science. I then ask for the data and research that supports their theory. Cue the cricket noises, because it does not exist. VLZ_58)
riposte(There is a well-known quotation — variously attributed to American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, film producer Samuel Goldwyn and golfer Gary Player — along the lines of: “The harder I work the luckier I get.” Although often seen simply as a riposte to those that insist that some people succeed by “getting the breaks”, it is actually sound common sense.)