Chance Quotes - Page 27

• The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

  James Surowiecki

  Benefits, May, Poor

  "Penny-Wise" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 27, 2004.

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• While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Play, Risk

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• The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Yesterday, Understanding, Foundation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon (2016). “The Story of Mankind: Juvenile History”, p.205, VM eBooks

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• Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Lasts, Ends

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• It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Order

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• The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

  Freeman Dyson

  Choices, Trying, Way

  Q&A, science.slashdot.org. May 13, 2013.

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• Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Thinking, Zola

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• It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

  John Templeton

  Understanding, Emotion, Results

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• An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mind, Sound, Investment

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• I was Europe's last chance.

  Adolf Hitler

  Europe, Lasts, Last Chance

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, Luck, World

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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• I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Destiny, Feet

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• If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Play, Teeth

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• I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

  Ann Beattie

  Book, Tone, Grudge

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• Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't.

  Tara Hunt

  People, Giving, Interesting

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• A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Men, Doe, Use

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• Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

  Obert C. Tanner

  Attitude, Rooms, Earth

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• I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.

  Warren Zevon

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Commitment, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

  James Randi

  Believe, Survival, Quality

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• We never really learn from the first mistake or the second or third. It only hit us when we're given the last chance.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Mistake, Lasts, Firsts

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• I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Giving Up, Winning, Games

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.267, City Lights Books

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• Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen.

  Leigh-Anne Pinnock

  Believe, Just Believe, Happens

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