Chance Quotes
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Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
Seth Godin -
The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.
Seth Godin
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It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
Bob Jones, Sr. -
Digital currencies present a chance for money to truly become information, and for the creation of a global financial system that is truly frictionless, open, and uncensored - the vision we once had for the Internet.
Meltem Demirors -
There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
Vivienne Westwood -
If you chance your focus - you will change your life.
Bill Bartmann -
When you have a chance on the road, and we had many, you've got to finish it. Right now, (we're) a team that didn't take it by the throat and finish it when they had an opportunity.
Dan Monson -
I respect Virgin Atlantic's brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.
Ben Eine
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So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.
Marcel Proust -
I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.
Miranda Cosgrove -
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Emile Chartier -
When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'
Johnny Gimble
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The opponent has the chance to win the match, and I have a chance to win the match. It's open, and I have just to do everything I can there.
Simona Halep -
Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?
Catherynne M. Valente -
When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.
Ellen MacArthur -
I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.
Charles Lloyd -
To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
Jose Angel Gurria -
If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.
George Li
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...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
Ettore Sottsass -
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Arsene Wenger -
I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
Cathy Freeman -
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca the Younger