Chances Are Quotes - Page 8

• When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Giving, Chance, Given

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• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Odds, Play

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Television, Chance

  "The Abolition of Work". Essay by Bob Black, www.primitivism.com. 1985.

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• When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

  Mike Sanders

  Running, Cat, Chance

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• Chance is the fool's name for Fate

  Fred Astaire

  Fate, Names, Fool

  The movie The Gay Divorcee

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• The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

  Robert Frost

  Race, Pace, Chance

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Running, Chance

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• Chance is a nickname for Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nicknames, Chance, Providence

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• Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mistake, Order

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• The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Chance, Lifetime

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• Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

  Michio Kaku

  Intelligent, Moon, Space

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• 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.

  M. Ward

  Song, Giving, Perspective

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• 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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, School, Doctors

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• I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

  David Cassidy

  Priorities, Different, Slim

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• If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

  Noam Chomsky

  Chance, Obvious, Ifs

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• Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

  Kay Ryan

  Heart, Literature, Chance

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.

  Otto Weininger

  Children, Feelings, Mind

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• When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Two, People, Broken

  Iyanla Vanzant (2010). “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.

  Ernst Boris Chain

  Dna, Faces, Principles

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• Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.

  Jessi Kirby

  Chance, Realizing, Life Is

  Jessi Kirby (2013). “Golden”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Solomon's Laws:
  8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

  Paul Levine

  Girlfriend, Smart, Law

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• If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Goal, Chance

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 20, 2010

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• If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Dedication, Creating

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 03, 2014

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• It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.

  Bobby Flay

  Moving, Important, Sticks

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