Quotes About Chance

I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.

I think if you have a good attitude and go in with no pressure or expectations, just for a chance to play with all these talented people and do your thing, then it's always a blast!

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Aine plays a huge part in everything I do. We didn't study together; we didn't really have mutual friends, except for one, who had a party, and we both went to it. We met there and sat together for a long time just talking. We liked each other, and we were both trying to show that to one another, but nothing was happening.

You trust to luck. You are not about to master your fate.

My own words cast a shadow a never meant. Please forget them. Or not. The shadows we speak sometimes are what tell us how astonishing the morning, is, as here, where a last owl tightens a grip on a branch, where a last chance circles with the first swallows.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for it is always there. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

The people in our lives are like cards in a deck. At different times we draw, hold, and discard, but, in the end, we don't really know the cards' value until life calls our hand.

As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors the prepared mind.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

Accidents never happen when the room is empty.

Events happen. Or they don't.

I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How very black ops of you. And oh, you know— dangerous and foolish." "I know." I said, surprised at how calm I sounded as I admitted that. "But I have to know something, and this may be my only chance." "Then I'll go with you in case that guy comes back," he said with a sigh. "Never let it be said Adrian Ivashkov doesn't help damsels in distress.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Both Christian and Adrian had worried there would be some piece of Strigoi left in him, but their fears had been about violence and bloodshed. No one would have guessed this: that living as a Strigoi had hardened his heart, killing any chance of him loving anyone. Killing any chance of him loving me. And I was pretty sure that if that was the case, then part of me would die too.