Quotes About Chance

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Sitting in a park in Paris, France, Reading the news and it sure looks bad. They won't give peace a chance. That was just a dream some of us had.

The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.

If you start with little you start with more possibility.

Ask, and ye shall receive. Knock, and the door will open. If you ask, as if you want, and knock, as if you want to enter, you may be offered the chance to improve your life, a little; a lot; completely—and with that improvement, some progress will be made in Being itself.

todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad.

Just how you go about doing that turned out to be elegantly simple, albeit with one complication: You have only four seconds to do it. Otherwise, you're toast.

If everything were anything," Chance said softly, "the barriers would break down, and we'd all lose ourselves to chaos. And then there would be no cotton candy.

Improbable things happen a lot.

if gambling is exciting, you're doing it wrong.

When we say that there's a 5% chance that RED is true, we are making a statement not about the global distribution of biased roulette wheels (how could we know?) but rather about our own mental state. Five percent is the degree to which we believe that a roulette wheel we encounter is weighed toward the red.

it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.

In the British statistician R. A. Fisher's famous formulation, "the 'one chance in a million' will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.

Once for all, he accepts the stock of commonplaces, prejudices, fag-ends of ideas or simply empty words which chance has piled up within his mind, and with a boldness only explicable by his ingenuousness, is prepared to impose them everywhere

A good player is always lucky.

Believing in chance is like believing in miracles. Both things must assume that God does not know the future. What is a chance? It is something that absolutely no one can foresee. What is a miracle? It is a contradiction, a subversion of the laws of Nature. Both contradiction and lack of foresight imply imperfection in the Intelligence that governs the machinery of the world.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

Shabby suits and no stockings, but they had survived, waited in hiding or miraculously escaped, for this new chance, the idea the Nazis hadn't managed to kill.

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb