Quotes About Chances

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Only Once In Your Life

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

life is all about? Taking chances? Giving time and love and attention to people, things, and situations that might not pan out? That's the definition of hope, and without hope, life would be too bleak for me.

This is what I think the world is showing me. We are souls at a common cause. We are only here to love. That was my great story all along. We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.

Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.

Opportunities and choices.

you don't get many chances for happiness in this life, and when you get one, you need to seize it and hang on to it.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Improving decision quality is about increasing our chances of good outcomes, not guaranteeing them.

Andrew Mauboussin and Michael Mauboussin came up with this pretty comprehensive list of these types of terms for a survey they conducted: Almost always More often than not Serious possibility Almost certainly Never Slam dunk Always Not often Unlikely Certainly Often Usually Frequently Possibly With high probability Likely Probably With low probability Maybe Rarely With moderate probability Might happen Real possibility

What good poker players and good decision-makers have in common is their comfort with the world being an uncertain and unpredictable place. They understand that they can almost never know exactly how something will turn out. They embrace that uncertainty and, instead of focusing on being sure, they try to figure out how unsure they are, making their best guess at the chances that different outcomes will occur.

Job and relocation decisions are bets. Sales negotiations and contracts are bets. Buying a house is a bet. Ordering the chicken instead of the steak is a bet. Everything is a bet.

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

And, naturally, the city caught the contagious air of entre - the working girls, poor ugly souls, wrapping soap in the factories and showing finery in the big stores, dreamed that perhaps in the spectacular excitement of this winter they might obtain for themselves the coveted male - as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased.

as in a muddled carnival crowd an inefficient pickpocket may consider his chances increased.

You have to assume as a bowler that the batsman is going to hit every ball that he will face. That's where as a bowler you have to fancy your chances. If he is going to hit you, you can dismiss him. That is the confidence I give to my bowlers.