Quotes About Chance

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

youth is like a good card, which one can either play or hide under one's vest.

How results that are not indicative of anything can be produced by pure chance—given a small enough number of cases—is something you can test for yourself at small cost. Just start tossing a penny. How often will it come up heads? Half the time of course. Everyone knows that. Well, let's check that and see…. I have just tried ten tosses and got heads eight times, which proves that pennies come up heads eighty percent of the time.

The basic sample is the kind called "random." It is selected by pure chance from the "universe," a word by which the statistician means the whole of which the sample is a part.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

In my experience, luck is more output than input

Bellman nodded, smiling. "Even chance can bring justice?" "Exactly!" Grand Master said. "But it never hurts to nudge it in the right direction.

It has been said that we only get one spin at life, but once in a while we may get another. What we do with it will determine whether or not it is deserved.

Nothing was left to chance; every smell, every piece of furniture, and certainly the design of the floor plans made these model homes world-class.

How perfect were the dictates of fate!

She realized that the world was a dance of a million fates. In this dance she was but a single soul.

The pressure to define civil war is often inversely related to the political stakes for offering such a definition: the higher the pressure to be precise, the greater the chance that exactitude will itself be a source of political contention.

As the old saying goes, "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Take out all but one bullet and it was Russian Roulette. In Mexican Roulette, as he'd heard it defined, you took out only one. In Drunk Mexican Roulette you didn't take out any.

Even God rolls the dice and allows stuff to happen both good and not so good as it may seem to us at the time but we are unable to see the bigger and complete picture like God can

Keep hoping to rub the genie's lamp maybe you get lucky

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

Though something told him there was a better chance of Gally bringing him flowers than of passing a day in the Glade with nothing strange happening.

What he saw seemed natural enough, and despite his sudden indifference to the world, it gave him a small squeeze of comfort that saddened him a little. Saddened that he'd never have a chance to live a full and meaningful life under the skies above.

Well, you know how things go sometimes. Bada-boom bada-bing, and you died, too. - Dak

Perhaps we remember them, too, because their lives show us how malleable our own futures are. In their work we perceive how many loopholes fate has left us—how much of destiny is still in our own hands. In them, we see that nothing is predetermined. Chance can be on our side, if we but stir it up with our energies, stay receptive to its every random opportunity, and continually provoke it by individuality in our hobbies, attitudes, and our approach to life.