Quotes About Chance

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities.

I wondered how my research into the mathematical theory of a game might change my life. In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them.

simple probability and statistics should be taught in grades kindergarten through twelve and that analyzing games of chance such as coin matching, dice, and roulette is one way we can learn enough to think through such issues.

With time, lucky managers tend to fade.

For the second time, the Ten-Count System had shown moderately heavy losses mixed with "lucky" streaks of the most dazzling brilliance. I learned later that this was a characteristic of a random series of favorable bets. And I would see it again and again in real life in both the gambling and the investment worlds.

By this time, Washington's airports were buried in two feet of snow, so I boarded a train for Boston. During the long ride back I wondered how my research into the mathematical theory of a game might change my life. In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities.

The next decision is whether or not to double down, which is to double your bet and draw exactly one card to the first two cards of a hand.

In counting cards, it's mainly the fraction remaining that matters, not the number.

First, you bought something you didn't really understand, so it was no better or worse than throwing a dart into the stock market list.

The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck—good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

Fate was cruel, but it was fate.