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• It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

  Michael Hyatt

  Succeed, Fantasy, Settling

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Effort, Mind

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• Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

  Chad Kroeger

  Horse, Successful, Dark

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• One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

  Brook Benton

  Fun, Heaven, One Day

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• By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Kids, Overcoming, Ordinary

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• The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Education, Mind, Facts

  Song: Get The Picture

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• I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Law, Ideas, Sensible

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• Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

  David Sklansky

  Winning, Favors, Win Or Lose

  David Sklansky (1999). “The Theory of Poker”, p.10, Two Plus Two Publishing LLC

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• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

  Lucy Lawless

  Nice, People, Mind

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Kids, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pride, Years, America

  First State of the Union Address, delivered 26 January 1982

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• As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

  Tom Peters

  Journey, Yarn, Creating

  Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com, November 5, 2010.

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• In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Quality, Heritage, Firsts

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

  Keith Olbermann

  Struggle, Years, Games

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• Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.

  Ellen Willis

  Home, College, Social Values

  "The Pernicious Concept of 'Balance'". "The Chronicle of Higher Education", September 9, 2005.

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• Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

  Tom Peters

  Misreading, Persistent

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• Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

  Cornel West

  Believe, People, Optimism

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• Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

  Bill Simmons

  Names, Want, Circumstances

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• The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Pain, Injury, Said

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• And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Memories

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I had always planned when I started directing in 1970 that after a few years I'd get tired of looking at myself on the screen and say: "Hey, let's not do that any more." But then every once in a while something pops up. I'm not saying it won't happen again but probably the odds get less as you set yourself for roles that fit your age group.

  Clint Eastwood

  Tired, Years, Age

  "Invictus - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

  Lucretius

  Atheism, May, Limits

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Guy

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