Chance Quotes - Page 7

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

When the rare chance comes, seize it To do the rare deed.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

This chance will stand before you only once.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.