Odds Quotes - Page 20

• Ain't nothin' better
  We beat the odds together
  I'm glad we didn't listen
  Look at what we would be missin'
  They said "I bet they'll never make it"
  But just look at us holdin' on
  We're still together still goin' strong

  Shania Twain

  Anniversary, Strong, Together

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, People, Adults

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• Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Passion, Successful, Persons

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 03, 2012

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• The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Struggle, Achievement, Faces

  "Pakistan vote the first step on a long road" by Robert Menendez, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2013.

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

  Alan Brennert

  Thinking, People, Design

  Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.11, Macmillan

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• You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

  David Beckham

  Succeed, Discouraged, One In A Million

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• Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Mean, Focus

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• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Play, Tasks

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• There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

  Hal Moore

  Increase, Can Do

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• In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Facts, Immense

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Our Generation, People

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• Great determination can overcome most odds.

  Aesop

  Determination, Overcoming, Great Determination

  Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr

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• Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.

  Robert Johnson

  Confidence, Believe, Vision

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Pain

  "White Night". Book by Jim Butcher, 2007.

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• So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

  Robyn

  Powerful, Moving, Eye

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• I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

  Ben Casnocha

  Writing, Hearing, Remember

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• Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jesus, America, Would Be

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Priorities, Peculiar

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• Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.

  Jonathan Clements

  Smart, Temptation, Ignorant

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• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  Alexander Elder

  Business, Challenges, Getting High

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

  John Ensign

  Wall, Business, Vegas

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• There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Knights, Giving

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Laughing

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• Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

  Rob Bell

  Real, Community, Honest

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