Quotes About Chance

Chance I is completely impersonal; you can't influence it. Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore. Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations. Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.

Experimental ideas are very often born by chance as a result of fortuitous observations.

A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx

they are missing the short- and long-term benefits of serendipitous interactions.

Call it fate, call it luck, but we Lankshire men think the more prepared we are the luckier we get, if you get my meaning.

Don, a CPA, kept a log of the first 100 horses that had been touted by insiders as ready to win and absolutely good things. Exactly six had won. We could have done as well by consulting a table of random numbers.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

quién dijo que la coincidencia es la manera que Dios tiene de permanecer anónimo?

The stray chance that might, or might not, change everything.

Chi è che ha detto che le coincidenze sono solo il modo che Dio ha scelto per restare anonimo?

Quién dijo que la coincidencia es la manera que tiene Dios de permanecer anónimo?

Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult's rope.

Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.

Any man who has been successful, Roosevelt repeatedly said, has leapt at opportunities chance provides.

Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born - and yet in each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from his low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap.

Aber ist es nicht außerordentlich merkwürdig, wie einem der Zufall Bücher in die Hände spielt, die etwas mit der eigenen Situation oder Lebensphase zu tun haben?

Richard doesn't like me either," said the fair one sorrowfully. "But that's unmannerly rank for you. Do you like Richard?" "I'm married to him!" "That's why I asked. You don't believe in polyandry by any chance?

else, of course, but the boy's

When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the poem Lullaby)

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

The light works, he said, indicating the window, the gravity works, he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. Anything else we have to take our chances with.

He turned left, therefore, in the hope of finding better fortune in that direction, but after a while lost his nerve and turned a speculative right, and then chanced another exploratory left, and after a few more such maneuvers was thoroughly lost.