Quotes About Chance

if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you

Listen, friend, he said, this whole game is just one big deck of cards. if you want to get into the game you have to take whatever comes up in the shuffle.

who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

You only had one shot. Why be a window-washer?

Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

It was a lucky night.

Since if past performance charts mean anything I'll surely go first the last way.

We are paper thin. We exist by chance between the percentages, temporarily. And this is the best and the worst part, the time factor. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can sit on top of a mountain and meditate for decades and nothing will change. You can change yourself to be acceptable, but maybe this is wrong. Perhaps we think too much. Feel more, think less.

I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.

You realize how many people there are on this earth without a chance? Because of where and how they were born? Because they had no education? Because they never had anything and never have and nobody gives a fuck . -South of No North

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the seats except for the luck of the draw--parents with enough money to point you safely toward a more generous life.

Oh, Mary said, life is mostly just what happens. Choice or chance or fate, gods or not. Like it or not. Things happen, we do what we think is in our best interests or just convenient, and then we live with the consequences.

E. B. White wrote, "No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."1

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not

Who knows? It's a long shot, but it just might work.

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university?

The belief otherwise is sometimes called "the gambler's fallacy." In fact, if you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting tails on the next flip is still ½. The

Yes, the probability that five people in the same school or church or workplace will contract the same rare form of leukemia may be one in a million, but there are millions of schools and churches and workplaces

federal researchers cannot rule out mere chance as the cause of any variation in the performance of students who use these software products and students who do not.

I won $2 playing the lotto today. And I might win $2 again tomorrow. But if I buy thousands of $1 lottery tickets, each with an expected payout of $.56, then it becomes a near mathematical certainty that I will lose money.

The law of large numbers explains why casinos always make money in the long run.

On the other hand, the most likely outcome, meaning the one that will happen most often, is that the company will not discover a cure for baldness and you will get only $250,000 back.