Quotes about Chance
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I pray whenever I get a chance. If I'm at a stop light, I pray.
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
I wanted to have a chance to win a championship.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
I don't have scientifically validated data, but once two people have found each other and found interest in each other, my hypothesis would be that the relationship has a good chance of being successful.
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.
The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something's wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That's something I've taken on board.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
I don't think everyone should get a second chance.
I believe in having a neat workspace because everything else in my life is so unpredictable, and my mind is so crowded - I wake up with commercials from the '90s blaring in my head. I try to give myself a fighting chance by having an organized workspace.
One chance is all you need.
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