TOEFL® essay sample: Luck take an important role in reaching our goal

[Darkangel12891]

010: “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.

There is a saying that success is a combination of 99% capacity and only 1% luck. Despite of the minority of luck, it must be concerned as the most important factor leading us toward our bright future for two reasons as following.

At the first glance, it is obviously that we can not achieve our goal without spending time in researching and applying our knowledge and experience. Any one who prepare himself or herself carefully seems to be easier to approach the succession than the other. However, hard working is not enough. We still need luck because of its decidable function. For instance, the farmer can fertilize their field to step up their goods and, through the first step of process, every thing seem accordingly, but they hardly control the weather such as rain, sun light, wind… Hence, a huge amount of heavy rain will result in the overwhelming death of trees or plants so, in reality, the farmer must suffer seriously the consequence they did not forecast before. This example has proven that naturally people can not attach their final goal without the luck’s support.

Last but not least, luck importantly joins its hand to many reputable inventions. Why I say this is because Niwton created his theory “law of motion” by seeing an apple coming down to the ground, Noben found his great element in making bomb when he got tired and went out for a walk and, suddenly, he caught his sight of it ,etc. Thus, these examples have claimed that luck is very significant in order to catch our best solution.

To sum up, I again myself disagree with the statement that “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” To be honest, Luck makes our life more vividly and surprisingly for it is unpredictable to grasp.

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a life sciences class (3)

[Namcy]

I do not agree that success comes only with hard work. Although, hard work is the key to success, luck has its fair share of influence on it. I believe that both the things should go hand in hand in order to gain the rewards. So, I totally disagree that success only comes because of hard work and luck does not play any role in it.

By saying this, I am not in any way underrating the importance of hard work. Hard work is probably the governing factor, but if the destiny is against you, it is hard to achieve success. I firmly believe in ‘God helps those who help themselves’ which means one has to work hard towards his goals. One cannot just sit and pray for the things to happen on their own. Luck alone can do nothing.

Hard work and perseverance are very essential to success. But, one can’t taste success only by that. For example, there are two doctors. Both have worked hard for their career, are almost equally knowledgeable and skilled in their profession. But, it can so happen that the clinic of one doctor is running extremely well and making millions of dollars, but that of the other one is barely generating any income. This is where luck comes into account. In spite of the hard work, if one is not lucky he may not be successful.

All in all, although I acknowledge the importance of hard work in gaining success, I believe that it alone can’t bring in the results. If that was the case, all hard working people would have been successful which is not true. Destiny or luck plays a crucial role, without which the results of hard work cannot be achieved.

Please let me know how it is and whether I can add some more points..thanks..

[Kitosdad]

Good morning Namcy. A " cracker " of an essay, even though a little short to be called so.

Everything was clearly expressed and your spelling, grammar and sentence structure was even better than in all of your previous efforts. ( couple of s's missing. )

Where do you go now ? You are just TOO good.

Kitosdad, your friend.
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