Chance Quotes - Page 14

• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Determination, Reality

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• The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

  John Bingham

  Journey, Somewhere Else, Joy

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.159, Rodale

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• We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Greatness, Inspire

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• From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

  Christopher Morley

  Mean, Eye, Literature

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Travels in Philadelphia”

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

  William Petty

  Men, Race, Etc

  Sir William PETTY (1769). “Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc”, p.23

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• This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

  Ai Weiwei

  Exercise, People, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

  Philippe Claudel

  Yield, Cooking, Soul

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Games, Elements, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Editing, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.

  Martina Navratilova

  Strong, Moving, People

  Source: www.laureus.com

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• Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

  Katherine Paterson

  Publishing House, Firsts, Take A Chance

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. We're very forgiving of failures and very willing to give people a second and third chance if they mean to do better and are sorry for what they've done.

  David McCullough

  Sorry, Believe, Hypocrite

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actors, Yeah, Wanted

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

  "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Moving, Body, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Abuse, Violence

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Nice, Moving

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

  Alan Dale

  Men, Years, Play

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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