Quotes About Chance

Un acontecimiento no es tanto más significativo y privilegiado cuantas más casualidades sean necesarias para producirlo?

Nie konieczno??, ale przypadek ma w sobie czar. Je?li mi?o?? ma by? mi?o?ci? niezapomnian?, od pierwszej chwili musz? si? ku niej zlatywa? przypadki (...).

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travled by, And that has made all the difference. As I recalled my own experience and development, I was impressed by the series of lucky accidents that determined the road I traveled. > From Lives of the Laureates pg.67

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?

Love is the one wild card.

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

When someone's running late through an airport, I hope they miss their flight so they can meet the love of their life at the duty free shop.

When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

Because I'm what happens when luck meets skill," Seth said, "and they get into a serious relationship.

Siempre existe la posibilidad de que ocurra algo aterrador, y normalmente ocurre.

the universe, according to quantum mechanics, participates in a game of chance.

All it takes to make a new person is one night with some skank you hardly know. I mean, there I am, screwing her, and now there's somebody like you or me on the way. It's so fucking bizarre. You screw up one time and nine months later, bam! A new person.

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Human nature likes order; people find it hard to accept the notion of randomness. No matter what the laws of chance might tell us, we search for patterns among random events wherever they might occur—not only in the stock market but even in interpreting sporting phenomena.

a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock listings can select a portfolio that performs as well as those managed by the experts.

Daniel Kahneman has argued that this tendency to overconfidence is particularly strong among investors. More than most other groups, investors tend to exaggerate their own skill and deny the role of chance. They overestimate their own knowledge, underestimate the risks involved, and exaggerate their ability to control events.