Take A Chance Quotes - Page 10

• Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Done, Facts

  "Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Olivier Sibony and Dan Lovallo, www.mckinsey.com. March 2010.

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• The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

  Stephen Humphrey Bogart

  Chance, Problem, Studios

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

  Ava DuVernay

  Opportunity, Ideas, Done

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Home, Risk, Chance

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• A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Men, Done

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.

  Bryan Cranston

  Falling In Love, Passion, Risk

  "Need to know: Bryan Cranston dedicated his Emmy to 'Sneaky Pete.' Who is he?" by Abby Devora, www.mtv.com. August 26, 2014.

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• So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?

  Greyson Chance

  Chance

  Song: Waiting Outside The Lines, Album: Hold On Til The Night, 2010

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• Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  Debbi Fields

  Business, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

  Hal Riney

  Tyrants, Firsts, Chance

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• You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

  Nathan Crowley

  Optimistic, Risk, Luck

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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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• I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.

  Niki Lauda

  Motivation, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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• The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

  Lili Reinhart

  People, Risk, Chance

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

  Mike Nichols

  Essence, Play, Differences

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• Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

  Zig Ziglar

  Chance

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

  Will Oldham

  Cds, Looks, Chance

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• Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

  Richard Machowicz

  Wish, Want, Way

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• If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

  David Viscott

  Risk, Growth, Get Better

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• Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Entrepreneur

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Choices

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

  Michael Chow

  Beautiful, Chance, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

  Federico Fellini

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

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• Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Courage, Important, Chance

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• When we are on tour we also take chances.

  Jan Garbarek

  Chance, Reincarnation

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• People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

  Jason Statham

  People, Want, Chance

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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