Quotes About Chance

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

I'm a worker. I like to work and I like to provide work for other people. I like to put people on my show who normally would never have a chance at being on television.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.