Quotes About Chance

Not blind chance. Blindsight. Amanda? Respond, please." "Blindsight?" "Nothing wrong with the receptors," he said distractedly. "Brain processes the image but it can't access it. Brain stem takes over." "Your brain stem can see but you can't?

If we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct? Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The game isn't over. The game is never over; and so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.

I'M PLAYING LOOSE — Game: Average 2 players before the flop Action: First to the pot, and raising Players: 9- to 10-handed

Jury selection finally began on July 21, 1988, from a pool of 1600 citizens. The Hernandezes were looking for Hispanics and certain minorities; they felt that with a jury of all whites and Asians, Richard wouldn't have a chance. They believed Hispanics and blacks would have a more open mind.

Amount of luck in tournament determines amount of regression to the mean from one year to the next.

slow regression is more often seen in activities dominated by skill, while faster regression is more associated with chance.

Think about the love of your life and the countless events that had to happen as they did to bring the two of you together. (...) Once, it was vanishingly unlikely that you two would meet. And yet, you did. What do you make of that? Most people don' think "Wow, what luck!" Instead, they take the sheer improbability of it happening, and the fact it happened, as proof it was meant to happen.

In all of life, but especially in war, the greatest power belongs to fortune. —CAESAR

There's someone for everyone, here in London, they always say.

On the contrary. In this case I think there's every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.

Can you imagine how much of existence would be impossible if people didn't believe in a certain amount of luck in the face of all evidence to the contrary? The true essence of human life is delusion. That's what we've got in here. And it's been that way ever since the first Roman soldier blew on a handful of dice. It's simple human nature to believe your luck is going to turn.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Most things are never meant. - Going, Going

May out of the clouds of chance A calm wind blow, a bird be sighted and steer Straight for your bough, and its pursuing love Break in the air, a scarlet target afloat For the strength of your striking arrow; — Philip Larkin, from section III of "Now," The Complete Poems , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)

Mauboussin notes that slow regression is more often seen in activities dominated by skill, while faster regression is more associated with chance.15

a distinction that philosophers have proposed between "epistemic" and "aleatory" uncertainty.

Aleatory uncertainty is something you not only don't know; it is unknowable.

Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?

Extraño? No lo creo. Las coincidencias son los pequeños maravillosos misterios de la vida. No dudes de una coincidencia. Sólo disfrútala.

I suppose we run into accidents and coincidences every day. What matters are the choices we make. If we let an important chance slip by without even trying, then what do we have?

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

I'm not exactly a huge Beatles fan, but when I have a chance to visit a legendary place like the Beatles museum, I definitely use it. It's historic.

The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.

Touring life can often be so busy it makes it difficult to visit places and do all the touristy things, but I've had the chance to visit Tokyo a number of times and see a lot of the city. I love it!