Quotes About Chance

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

You cannot remove randomness from the universe. You can, however, use your 168 hours to stack the odds in your favor. To do this, you have to place many bets, and leave nothing you can control to chance. In other words, you have to be open to possibilities, and plan for opportunities.

There is a lot of randomness in the universe, but truly lucky people recognize that fairy godmothers are lazy. If taking your career to the next level will require your fairy godmother to tip her wand, make sure the wand is pointed at you, and that you're standing as close to her as possible, so all she has to do is nudge the thing like a bored barfly fiddling with a cocktail glass.

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

Here's the thing, I'm sure you're thinking, What the hell, she should be grateful and do it the way I said. Maybe you're right. But while I am grateful for the chance, this is creative for me. I have my own process and it doesn't include you or anyone else but the owner of the car. I'm worth it.""That's a bold claim.""I'm more than happy to show you.

as soon as you tempt fate, it will absolutely come to bite you in the ass.

Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.

and on whose skill, luck, and good judgment their lives depended.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Na maioria dos casos, toda a gente merece mais do que uma oportunidade. Todos nós fazemos coisas que lamentamos de vez em quando e que teremos de levar para sempre dentro de nós.

Nothing is an accident,

Nothing is an accident,' Pauline would say, again and again.

Charise Mericle Harper

And if it was a project, would it be a chance to show his talent?

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Death comes so fast that sometimes it misses us. (La mort arrive si vite Que des fois elle nous rate)

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.

Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities!

A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher`s stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist`s researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross and every precious thing to poor account.

But its the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X.