Quotes About Chance

If any one trusted your body to the first man he met, you would be indignant, but yet you trust your mind to the chance comer, and allow it to be disturbed and confounded if he revile you; are you not ashamed to do so?

in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

For all that we know, the wholly harmonious individual might be without the impulse to push on, and without the compulsion to strive for perfection in any department of life. There is always a chance that the perfect society might be a stagnant society.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.

Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.

If you were lucky enough to feel safe enough to fight and struggle, then you were lucky indeed. If you felt loved enough to scream and yell and exercise your power openly, the marriage had a fifty-fifty chance.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Concentration attracts luck factor.

Perhaps the most serious objection is what Tetlock calls the "wrong-side-of-maybe fallacy," the risk of being charged with "failure" when an event doesn't happen even when the intelligence estimate claimed there was only a 70 percent chance that it would. When it comes to likelihood, we tend to conflate maybe with sure thing.87

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Although I won't pretend our paths are likely to cross, I hope you know that I will be delighted if they do.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

Someone once called fate "the only cosmic force with a tragic sense of humor,