Quotes About Chance

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.

At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.

Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?

Fate is bound up in the music of chance.

secrecy that eventually landed him in jail? We are not just the sum total of everything that has happened to us, but also a testament to the way we have interpreted all that has crossed our path. The music of chance intersecting with the maddening complexities of choice – and how, in the wake of bad judgment and self-sabotage, we so often rewrite the scenario to create one that we can live with.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, itd be nice if you just take it.

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

One can never scheme for meeting the right person. It is always by chance, an accident, but you know it's the special one because suddenly life throbs with colour and opportunity and meaning. Your deepest needs are fulfilled. You have everything. You're in heaven.

Creeping determinism means that we pay less attention than we should to the things that don't happen.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.