Chances Are Quotes - Page 6

• If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

  Paul A. Offit

  Going Away, Chance, Week

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Dragons, Red

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Risk

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• The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intelligent, Alternatives

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• Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Mind, Matter

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.78, Hackett Publishing

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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, Movement, Chance

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• The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.

  Emile Borel

  Opportunity, Matter, Events

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• Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Two, Together

  "The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.

  Bob Alberti

  Love, Crush, Dream

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• If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

  Bart Starr

  Football, Hard Work, Effort

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• If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Racism, Political, Mouths

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• If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

  Chet Atkins

  Chance, Reincarnation, Halfway

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• If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Opportunity, Missing, Mind

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• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

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• Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Successful, Ideas, Acting

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Grief, Mean, Want Something

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• If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Jobs, Community, Greed

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

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• Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.

  Francis Crick

  Horse, Science, Pigs

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• Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, May, Chance

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• Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Names, Google

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• If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.

  Cory Monteith

  Art, Focus, Acting

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• It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

  Julie Bowen

  Patience, War, Chance

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• I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.

  David Spade

  Thinking, Car, Chance

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• The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  Gary Sinise

  Jobs, Hollywood, Actors

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