Top 1200 Taking Chances Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

I am always slightly mystified by the whole 'Snow White' story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in one house in the woods?

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

I am a winger, but in future, I want to play more in the middle. When you are there, you have a lot more chances to score.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

If it's an emotional chick-flick type of movie, chances are, I'm going to end up crying. I'm not afraid to admit that, because I think emotion is very healthy.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

I like my chances toe to toe with just about anybody.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes to do, the better the chances are that he will do it.

The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.

Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

If somebody is here illegally, and they commit a crime, chances are they're going to commit another one. So let's get rid of them.

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future economy and the life chances of our young people.

I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.