Chance Quotes

• Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

  

  William Goldman
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Fantasy

• But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Idea
  • Liked
  • Seeds

• Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Chance
  • Dangerous
  • Vengeance

• I hope white brothers and sisters read this book.Tears we cannot stop and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Book
  • Brother

• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Chance
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy

• People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Development
  • Theory
  • Asking

• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Art
  • Chance
  • Removes

• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  

  William Gilbert
  • World
  • Success
  • Wish

• The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • World
  • Giving
  • Peace

• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Country
  • Born
  • East

• For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.

  

  Dave Kikoski
  • Balance
  • Originals
  • Spontaneity

• 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
  • Time
  • Power
  • Future

• But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • People
  • Helping
  • Numbers

• Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Chance
  • Threatening

• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • People
  • Tradition
  • Underdog

• The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Lost
  • Chance
  • Moment

• By ignoring my fear, I learned that the fear was groundless. Over the years, I have met people who took what seemed the safer path and were the lesser for it...I had taken a risk, and that risk yielded that greatest reward...Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Fear
  • Risk
  • Reward

• Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

  

  William James
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Risk

• When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Interest
  • Succeed
  • Satisfy

• Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Audience
  • Shame
  • Economics

• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Sometimes

• When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Differences
  • Breathe
  • Impact

• Chance favors the connected mind.

  

  Steven Johnson
  • Mind
  • Chance
  • Connected

• The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.

  

  Nikki Jean
  • Work
  • Community
  • Chance

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