Quotes About Chance

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson

We did just leave an insane asylum," Hi agreed. "For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant's moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk." -Luke Skywalker

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)

If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

But in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT's media lab, "If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

These 'offer-block-accept' games have a use quite apart from actor training. People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.

Many of the opportunities you have in your life are generated by the energy you create around you.

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

To me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.

Fate will unwind as it must!

Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

The lives of strangers have their own rules, which differ from case to case, and anyone who tries to deduce them from a chance meeting is bound to get lost in an ocean of conjectures.

La mera negativa era demasiado aleatoria, porque a veces la nada puede ser la respuesta acertada, y yo jamás habría dejado mi suerte en manos del azar.

The most that can fairly be demanded is that the number of individual observations shall be as high as possible. If this number, statistically considered, falls within the limits of chance expectation, then it has been statistically proved that it was a question of chance; but no explanation has thereby been furnished. There has merely been an exception to the rule.

From the psychological point of view, primitive man's belief that the arbitrary power of chance answers to the intentions of spirits and of sorcerers is perfectly natural, because it is an unavoidable inference from the facts as he sees them. And let us not delude ourselves in this connection. If we explain our scientific views to an intelligent native he will credit us with a ludicrous superstitiousness and a disgraceful want of logic.

Here a critical attitude is justifiable, especially when we consider the oft-repeated observation that the moment of the outbreak of neurosis is not just a matter of chance; as a rule it is most critical. It is usually the moment when a new psychological adjustment, that is, a new adaptation, is demanded.

himself that the incident was just a strange coincidence, a random occurrence.