Quotes About Chance

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

Man is a gaming animal.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

If you don't try something, you never know.

Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with a disability can be included. Just give them a chance and let them learn. That's what the show was trying to teach.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

When Chelsea came calling for me, it was an opportunity, it was a chance and looking from the outset you may not be sure how it's going to go. But it's one you can't turn down, you have to grab it with both hands. Then you have to work as hard as you can to make it work.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

Destiny never changes with money, but sometimes it turns by meeting good people too.

You never know how life turns out.

He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

The National Lottery is brilliant because when I'm on my way people tweet me and say: 'Fingers crossed,' 'make my numbers come up!' Which I obviously can't do but, what a great life!

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.