Quotes About Chance

The main issue is that putting yourself in a position to enjoy good luck also puts you in a position to lose.

If you are the stronger player, simplify the interaction to emphasize your skill. If you are the underdog, complicate the game to introduce more luck into the outcome. Underdogs that successfully increase the influence of luck will also increase their chance of winning.

Your only chance of winning is to adhere to the rules that you know work. Your skill can't change the odds, it can only be applied to make sure that you play the cards properly.

Barlow writes, "Associations discovered must be genuine ones and not due to chance. The mind that seizes on any random coincidence and sees it as a sign of an important permanent association will not guess right and is not conceded to be intelligent, though it may be at times entertaining.

There, but for the grace of God, or the accident of birth, or the mystery of fate, go I.

by making clear what is true in any case, that those who land on top do not make it on their own but owe their good fortune to family circumstance and native gifts that are morally akin to the luck of the draw.

It is the sensibility of Ecclesiastes: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

A good managerial record is more a function of which boat you get into rather than how effectively you row"1 Warren Buffett

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

During our lives all of us will experience opportunities for change which involve risk. These occasions may come at inconvenient times. We may not act upon them, but the challenge is there for us. The purpose of reincarnation is the exercise of free will. Without this ability, we would be impotent creatures indeed.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune …

Cause he got everything to lose.

If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own.

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.