Quotes About Chances

Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti. They're easily missed, mistaken, or squandered. They can be scary. And they never come with a 110% money-back guarantee. They're often nothing more than chances to improve on something other people are already doing. Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.

But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.

That meal replacement bar she'd eaten during the drive was considering its chances for escape so it wouldn't have to go down there with her.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.

As we wait for the bill, I ask Shanahan the question he gets asked at every cocktail party he's been to in the past twenty years: Are your chances of surviving a crash better near the front of the plane or the back? "That depends," he says patiently. "on what kind of crash it's going to be." I rephrase the question. Given his choice of anywhere on the plane, where does he prefer to sit? "First class.

We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to grasp them and follow them up, then they are gone, and gone for ever. At least we must try.

But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

The way economists see it, the chances of an individual's vote influencing an election outcome is vanishingly small, so unless it is fun to vote, it doesn't make much sense to do so.

People are surprised to learn that if 23 people are in a room, the chances that two will share a birthday are better than even. With 57 in the room, the odds rise to 99 percent. Though it's unlikely that anyone in the room will share my birthday, we're not looking for matches with me, or with anyone else singled out a priori. We're counting matches post hoc, and there are 366 ways for a match to occur.

So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one's chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.

I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.

I know I'm a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.

This mask is attached to pure oxygen, which is thought to be very beneficial to someone suffering a diving injury, and to their chances of recovery," Dave recited. "I suggest you breathe the oxygen, but the choice is entirely yours.

Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

Opportunities arrive and you think, 'Wow, that seems like a really good idea.' You take risks. If they don't work out, you move on.