Chance Quotes - Page 33

• There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

  E. B. White

  Doe, Streams, Wells

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

  Greyson Chance

  Gold

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• I always want to do the best that I can with the opportunities that God has given me. The only way that you can possibly do that is to give yourself a chance to go as high as you possibly can. If you don't have the confidence in yourself and you don't have the desire to compete and move ahead, than you start to get stagnant....If I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther than if I hadn't reached at all.

  Don Shula

  Moving, Fall, Opportunity

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• They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

  John Calvin

  Events, Judgment, Permission

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• The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

  Ned Colletti

  Baseball, League, Giants

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Swings, Games

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• Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you

  John Green

  Lying, Grief, Long

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• If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.

  Billy the Kid

  Law, Judging, Mexico

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• I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Jobs, Real, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.

  Colin Hanks

  Nerd, Comedy, Bigs

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).

  Dana Cowin

  People, Cracks, Ugly

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• [Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.

  Lennox Lewis

  Winning, Waiting, Use

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.

  Michael Arrington

  Hurt, Opposites, Numbers

  "The Twice Shy Entrepreneur". techcrunch.com. December 9, 2007.

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• Paul Scholes was the jewel in the crown, the first name on the teamsheet and unquestionably one of the finest England players of the age. He flourished at once in the international arena, which didn't surprise me given his fabulous all-round attributes. He had almost everything - talent, intelligence, courage. His only blemish, which he never really shook off, was his tackling. There was always the chance of that red mist coming down. Overall, though, Paul was a wonderful player and he's a lovely lad, a credit to his club and to himself.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Player, Jewels, Names

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• I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

  David Lynch

  Mistake, Atmosphere, Care

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• Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool.

  Iris Murdoch

  Pain, Sleep, Laughing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.80, Penguin

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• The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

  James Surowiecki

  Benefits, May, Poor

  "Penny-Wise" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 27, 2004.

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• While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Play, Risk

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• Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Lasts, Ends

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• It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Order

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• It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

  John Templeton

  Understanding, Emotion, Results

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• I was Europe's last chance.

  Adolf Hitler

  Europe, Lasts, Last Chance

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, Luck, World

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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• Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't.

  Tara Hunt

  People, Giving, Interesting

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• A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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