Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
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