Chance Quotes - Page 30

• On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.

  Jared Padalecki

  Suicide, New Year, Struggle

  "'Always Keep Fighting': The Campaign Leading The Discussion Against Self-Harm" by Mckenzie Foust, www.theodysseyonline.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Doe, Likes

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Artist, Fewer, Limitation

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• When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

  Katie Price

  Growing Up, Ambition, People

  "Katie Price is right"". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• First impressions never have a second chance.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Second Chance, First Impression, Firsts

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• A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Doe, Movement, Demand

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• I'm going to use whatever God blesses me with as a platform to tell the world that God is for you. He proved it through sending Jesus down here to die for us and be resurrected. And for us that gives us second chances and it gives us hope, and so we spread that message everywhere.

  Jase Robertson

  Jesus, Second Chance, Giving

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• Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Glasses, Leaving, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2774, Manonmani Publishers

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• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Errors, Discovery, Joy

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• We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

  Louise Erdrich

  Moving, Love Is, Return

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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• Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

  Terence McKenna

  Style, Succession, Pure

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• If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Succeed, Excellent

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• If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Practice, Acting, Stage Actors

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• There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Successful, Long, Comfort

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• If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Play, Cards

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• Don't ever think of bad things that could happen, and you'll have a better chance of them never happening. Don't ever think about doing something bad to someone, because depending on the intensity of your mind waves, something bad could really happen to them. Think love. Be love. Breathe only love, and love you shall be. When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

  Suzy Kassem

  Stress, Love You, Love Is

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• Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Morning, Night, Eight

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• If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Generations, Demand, Want

  "The Power of Doubt" by Christopher B. Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teaching, Player

  John R. Wooden, Bill Sharman, Bob Seizer (1975). “The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Thinking, Wish

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• People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

  Stefan Heym

  Sacrifice, People, Promise

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• War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Violence, Reason

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• When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Halloween, Hero, Party

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• I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van [Morrison] on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Baby, Second Chance, Blue

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