Quotes About Chance

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

For some players, luck itself is an art

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

And let this opportunity pass?

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.

La explicación histórica que hemos presentado hasta ahora indica que cualquier enfoque basado en el determinismo histórico (basado en geografía, cultura o incluso en otros factores históricos) es inadecuado. Las pequeñas diferencias y la casualidad no forman parte solamente

Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.

He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.

For myself, I counted on coming through all in one piece. Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.

I don't have much of a life now, and from what I'm told I'll have even less where I'm going. If there's something wonderful on this ship, I want to know what it is. This is my only chance." -Peter

There's no such thing as The One, she once said. They were at dinner in Taipei, with a supplier and his wife. The couple had been married forty years. The idea that there's just one person in the world you're meant to be with, it's illogical, she said. She'd had a few drinks and was enjoying her own loud thoughts. The math just doesn't work! Who you end up with, it's really just an accident of proximity.

But there is risk. But the risk is worth it.

Rule #72: Never depend upon luck, but don't ignore how really valuable it is.

Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.—Stephen Covey

The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.

got the chance.