Quotes About Odds

Daniel Kahneman, who was the first psychologist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (see my podcast episode #212), attributed market manias to investors' illusion of control, calling the illusion prospect theory. He studied the intellectual underpinnings of investing—how traders estimate odds and calculate risks—to prove how often people act from the mistaken belief they know more than they do.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

A person meets thousands of different people across a lifetime, a woman thousands of different men, of all shades, and many more if she constantly passes through different parts of the world. Even so, of the many different people a person on average meets it is rare for one to fit almost immediately in harmony and general interest. For all the choices available the odds are enormous.The miracle is there to be grasped.

Being born is a blessing in itself. You have survived, despite all the odds.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm.

Our squadron commander said, 'You've got to shoot down four enemy planes before you're shot down yourself because that's what the odds are. Otherwise you're wasting your time.

Those were certainly better odds

Those were certainly better odds than Candace had ever had before.

Boyle, who was holding an impromptu news conference in the corner of the hall, stated, "I knew the odds for insanity were bad. He was sick and just didn't realize what was wrong with him. I just hope that now he can live in whatever way he can without suicide.

All life is three-to-one against, boychik, but you beat the odds.

Why should I poison my body for odds that terrible?

What if two equal lions battle for territory, or for a mate?" "They'll each size up the other, testing the odds. A lion is more cautious on equal footing, but even then he won't back down. He has no fear, you see, not as we understand it. He can only be exactly what he is, what his nature dictates, and nothing else.

if you're not tracking conversions from click, to sales lead, to sale, then odds are 80 percent of your traffic is not converting to sales and you don't know it.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He

Balzac knew intuitively the need for invented persons to represent life for us, with an enhanced sense of the odds and stakes of life. Representation for Balzac always touched on the theatrical, offering life bathed in starker, more revealing light.