Quotes About Chance

Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.

when you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

You have a name and a destiny. I can only believe that sooner or later you will stumble across some hope.

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.

Por acaso a vida distribuía apenas os quinhões merecidos?

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE.

Iactura paucourm serva multos.

Fate was a cruel and unpredictable mistress

DIOS NO JUEGA A LOS DADOS CON EL UNIVERSO.

Windows of opportunity open and then close. By staying in the present, handling what's in front of us, and riding the wave of opportunity when it comes, we follow the natural order of things.

The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. —Benjamin Disraeli

Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.

The human genome . . . the human soul . . . distrusts homogeneity, Raul. It – they – are always ready to take a chance, to risk change and diversity.

It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.

Il genoma umano, l'anima umana, diffida dell'omogeneità, Raul. È sempre pronto a cogliere al volo l'occasione, a correre il rischio del cambiamento e della diversità.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made

I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life--intractable and sad--that our relationship had been a failure. Still, with her prognosis came one last chance to be her daughter. [p. 163]

Either all of us are accidents of history or none of us are.

Each fork in the road: the choice to stay home, to go out, to catch the flight, or cancel it, to take the 1 train, to stop at the bar on the corner. The chance encounters, split-second decisions that make the design—that are the design.

Could Have" by the Polish Nobel Laureate Wis?awa Szymborska: "It could have happened. / It had to happen. / It happened earlier. Later. / Nearer. Farther off. / It happened, but not to you." The poet goes on to contemplate the nature of luck. "You were in luck—there was a forest. / You were in luck—there were no trees. / You were in luck—a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, / a jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant.

Life's creative challenges rarely come in the form of well-formulated puzzles. Instead we often have to recognize the very need to find a creative solution in the first place. Chance, as Louis Pasteur put it, favors a prepared mind. Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

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