Quotes About Chance

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.

To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I'm here to say that it's possible.

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.

I applied to only one drama school - if I didn't get in, I would give up the whole notion. That's how much of a chance I was giving myself.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I'm glad I did it.

With acceptance comes opportunities. And with opportunities come numbers and, most importantly, hope.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

I live by the law of averages," said Alois. "I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.

I think it was Denoon who said that the closest you can come in life to experiencing free will is when you do things at random. There is no free will. Everything is still determined when you make random choices, but you stop noticing.

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.

What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.

Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Keberuntungan berarti persiapan untuk bertemu dengan momen peluang.

Right now, no matter where you are, you are a single choice away from a new beginning.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.

Es algo sabido que la vida no está predeterminada y que todas las historias son una cadena de casualidades. Pero incluso los que son conscientes de esa realidad, cuando llega cierto momento de su existencia y miran atrás, llegan a la conclusión de que lo que vivieron como casualidades no fueron sino hechos inevitables.