Quotes About Chance

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To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

Fortuna, that vicious slut.

Almost everyone else has had an opportunity to run the world. I cannot see why these people should not be given their chance.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

To settle for anything less than certainty about the truth of the ideas guiding you in the pursuit of your goals would be to leave your life literally to chance.

The one who is not dead still has a chance.

You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. 51

began using that door. In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

To have any chance in alleviating the devastation of the epidemic required organization, coordination, implementation. It required leadership and it required that institutions follow that leadership.

In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

Luck is the residue of design.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

There is always time for failure