Quotes About Chance

Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

I was 23 and working in Asda when my friend Tommy asked me about 'Gogglebox.' He worked on the show and couldn't find anyone to audition in the north east so asked if I'd do it, to help him out.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

You know, another thing people don't realize is that there's a ton of luck in 'Jeopardy.'

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

My first day at Fox, President Obama gave a primetime address to the nation. That would have been a great chance for Roger Ailes or someone to say, 'Hey, Ed, there is going to be a lot of people watching tonight, maybe you should hit Obama on this or that.' I didn't get a phone call from anyone. I didn't get an email from anyone.

I miss out on tons of stuff.

I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Palace offered me the opportunity to come and play and I took it with both hands.

I'm so overwhelmed, humbled and just honored the Knicks took the chance with me.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.

The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.

si realmente podemos esperar toda la eternidad, hasta las cosas más improbables acabarán sucediendo.

Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns

can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.