Quotes About Chance

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

I always prepare myself in the same manner and when the opportunity comes along you have to grasp it.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

I didn't sit around thinking, 'I'd love to play Luke Cage,' but when the character was presented, I did my research, and I was just like, 'This is a real gift. He's a great character, and I'm happy to have a chance to take a crack at him.'

I got to go out there and make plays when they are presented to me.

It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot.

And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

If a defender has the ball and turns, we start pressing the goalkeeper before he passes back because if they make a mistake, it is a chance.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.