How are learning and opportunity related?

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.

You have to have a strong desire first. Would you call a fisherman lucky, who for years study the habits of the fish, that with each changing wind he could cast his nets about them?

A man has to work his way out of darkness into light. When that man finds the light, a place awaits him. No one could fill that place until he, for himself, works out his own understanding, until he is ready for opportunity.