On Success and Luck - Joerg Colberg (Mon 11 Feb 2013)

The Galleries - George St / Sydney (Wed 06 Feb 2013)
Joerg Colberg (*) talks Connections (*) and Luck (*):

there are connections (*), and there is luck (*) (the only real equalizer left in this world).

via What is at stake? (*) by Joerg Colberg (*)

On Connections - Jo Rowling - Harvard Commencement Speech (Thu 05 Jun 2008)

Jo and Tokyo Students [1] - Gold Palace / Kyoto (Sat 15 Sep 2012)
In her 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech (*), Jo Rowling (*) quotes an Anceint Greek Historian and Writer by the of Plutarch (*):

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

where she expands:

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives.

It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.

[1] The students had just finished asking Joanne a number of questions for a school assignment testing their English. They were very nice to us and put smiles on our faces.