Top 1200 Taking Chances Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

I know chances like 'Dangal' are rare. It's something that will be difficult to live down. But it's something I'll cherish for a lifetime.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains soldiers, all the way through their psyches, into their souls. I understand that, and could almost forgive him for taking his own life, to quiet the ghosts. But I can never forgive him for taking my mother with him.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

Sometimes you just hit that form and everything goes in; you get chances and you're more ruthless with them, more clinical.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

The fundamentals of taking your bumps and falls and protecting each other - it's not about you when you are in a professional match; it's about the match. It's about taking care of each other.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Trust is what leads to the best conversations. People take chances and say what they really think when they trust the person they're engaging with.

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.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

I don't understand what's going on behind the scenes fully, but Chelsea's a massive club, and I understand why chances don't come so often.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think there's opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension's concerned.

Today, television industry means pool of young talents, and if you are not active in it then there are chances that you will be overshadowed by them. It is like newspaper where old becomes stale.

No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

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

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality.

Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought "I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him." She's like "oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!"

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

Every single time we step on to the field - practice field or game field - we're thinking about winning that championship. But at the same time, we're taking it day by day. And we are taking it game by game.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.