Take A Chance Quotes - Page 13

• I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

  John Sculley

  Mistake, Enough Chances, Found

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1988). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future”, HarperCollins

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• Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

  John Henry Carver

  Chance, Professors, Shops

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• Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

  Winston Churchill

  Adventure, Men, May

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• To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Race, Risk, Thank God

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• Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

  Tom Brokaw

  Risk, Unconventional, Chance

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• Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

  Cat Cora

  Mistake, Doubt, Steps

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• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Risk, Earth, Daring To Be Great

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

  Bobby Jones

  Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, People, Chance

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• Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

  Elihu Root

  Chance, Life Is, Quarrels

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

  Roger Mahony

  Religious, Children, Father

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• I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

  Gavin DeGraw

  Chance

  "Gavin Degraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• What if I don’t like adventure?
  Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

  Wally Lamb

  Adventure, What If, Taste

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one

  Laura Berg

  Squares, Entrepreneur, Chance

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• This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Leader, Chance, Reincarnation

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• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

  Branch Rickey

  Player, Chance

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• Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, People, Giving

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• All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.

  Matthew Ashford

  Play, People, Able

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• If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

  Steve Rizzo

  Teaching, Learning, Risk

  Steve Rizzo (2000). “Becoming a Humor Being: The Power to Choose a Better Way”, Full Circle Pub

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• The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Book, Being In Love

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• In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Moving On, Musical, Moved On

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Thinking, Sight

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• I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fashion, Differences, Balls

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• Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Life, Risk, Chance

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