Take A Chance Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Animal, Two

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• It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

  Biz Stone

  Stars, People, Brave

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• I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Creative, Want, Chance

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

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• It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

  Bryan Brown

  Art, Stars, House

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

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• That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Commitment, Opportunity, People

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

  Judd Apatow

  Trying, Way, Lasts

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• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Temptation, Might

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

  Dree Hemingway

  Mistake, Inspire, Style

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

  Billy Eichner

  Careers, People, Hollywood

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• I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

  Edwin Land

  Education, Determination, Men

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• The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

  Sara Genn

  Mistake, Self, Chance

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• You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Tunes, Shy

  "Jennifer Aniston says she won't let tabloids steal her joy". "Associated Press" Interview, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Plays [of] Harold Pinter”, Methuen

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• The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

  Halle Berry

  Facts, Comfort, Chance

  "Reporter, Temp, Online Seductress - Berry Revels In Film's Layered Role". Detroit Free Press, April 08, 2007.

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• For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Ordinary, Chance, Exciting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so call good image guy and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Giving, Guy, Marketing

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

  Alan Arkin

  Fall, Thinking, Risk

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Littles, Chance

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• I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Games, Mad

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