Chance Quotes - Page 29

• Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Skills, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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• The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Country, Mistake, Past

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• Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Mistake, Things In Life

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• We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these times in -history - and we have plenty of examples from the past - where it's possible to really make a difference. And if art is serious about claiming a central role in today's society and culture, this is the best chance it's had in ages.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Challenges, Trying, Different

  "Priyanka Chopra Talks Disney’s PLANES, Playing the Character Ishani, Hoping to Inspire Children with Her Confidence, Her Love of Flying & Her Competitive Spirit". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

  Ariel Pink

  Thinking, Work Out, Way

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

  Manny Montana

  Football, Dream, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

  James Badge Dale

  Play, Hands, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Decision, Arbitrary

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People who know what they want, the universe has a way for clearing a path for them. When you want something bad enough, it's going to happen for you. You can almost manifest your own destiny by always focusing on it. Almost like the law of attraction. If you really know what you want, the chances of you finding it are so much more strong. It's almost as if it will come fall right on your lap. I know that I want to be champion.

  Jon Jones

  Strong, Fall, Destiny

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• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

  Danica Patrick

  Greatness, Conservative, Achieve

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Sea, Luxury

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• Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

  William McFee

  Destiny, Men, Magic

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• My dad isn't sure how I make a living because I'm not in the newspapers or on music shows any more. The world is bigger than England, however, but for the large part, yes, people don't know who I am. What are you gonna do? Unless you're a superstar act that attracts young people because it might be their last chance to see you before you die, then it's fairly typical. I'm astonished that I have any audience at all, to be honest.

  Graham Parker

  Dad, Who I Am, People

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• I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Deceiving, States

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

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• Relatively speaking, I know what my other deficiencies are. Cosmetically, I'm not 28 and stunning. The fact that NBC appreciates what I do means a great deal to me because I know that without my reporting skills and my experience and all of that, I might not have a fighting chance.

  Michele Tafoya

  Mean, Fighting, Nbc

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• The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

  Joel Miller

  Government, Effort, Groups

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• All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Who We Are, Life Is

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• What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Giving, Everyday, Roles

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• Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.

  Carroll Shelby

  Race, Car, Thank God

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• My advice is you've got to make sure you wear the clothes and not [let] the clothes wear you. It's quite simple in a way. Don't wear something you totally feel uncomfortable with, but take some chances. Play around a bit. I felt very uncomfortable in suits when I was younger, so what I just started doing was wearing suits when I was going to dinner. I used to overdress a little bit so I got used to wearing suits. Now wearing a suit is like wearing a track suit for me. So it's all good.

  Roger Federer

  Simple, Play, Clothes

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• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Organization, Evil

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• I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal that's great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever reason, that's impossible. You need to accept that possibility-don't make a deal for the sake of making a deal. If you do, chances are it will fall apart later anyway, with costs and headaches for everyone involved. And once you walk away, don't come back.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fall, Needs, Cost

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