Quotes About Chance

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

As ill-luck would have it.

People make their own luck.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Be prepared for luck.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck. Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.