Odds Quotes - Page 9

• When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Adversity, Long

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• Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Brother, Struggle

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Long, Faces

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

  Bella Thorne

  Dream, Thinking, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

  Mika Brzezinski

  Jobs, Men, Challenges

  "Don’t Forget To Have Kids" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it - who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet - that they can occasionally find one. And the wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time they don't. It's just that simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Battle, Injustice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.497, University of Chicago Press

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• That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

  Rollie Fingers

  Baseball, Running, Average

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• I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

  Bill Russell

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

  Karen Traviss

  Might, Matter, Pushing

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Reason

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.486, Faber & Faber

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• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Alternatives, Outcomes, Causes

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Real, Land, Three

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.40, BenBella Books

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

  Francis Ray

  Determination, Writing, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees. I say that as a grown-up moviegoer; behind me at a recent screening was a row of 10-year-old boys who were ecstatically in from the get-go. That's probably all that matters.

  Ty Burr

  Winning, Boys, Epic

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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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• A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

  Deborah Kass

  America, Broadway, Narrative

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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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• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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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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