Quotes About Chance

I can't even remember who said it, but the only way that book was going to change someone's life was if it fell on them.

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street Elementary School in South-Central Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade.

There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

When you are given an opportunity to make a film like 'Body of Lies' - and I would put 'Blood Diamond' in the same category - of course you jump at these opportunities.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.