Quotes About Chance

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

It doesn't matter how successful or how unsuccessful a team is. It can all change with one pick.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.

I'm all about giving up-and-coming people a chance.

I've been very lucky - I don't come from a privileged upbringing.

I've always been a fan of 'Coronation Street,' and the chance to work on it was just too good to miss, but it meant a great upheaval for my family.

Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he's making the right moves and making the right reads and he's getting lucky.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you come and join us now?' Yeah, that turned everything upside down.

I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.

Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into.

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Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.