- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better Chance
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, people will tell you that you have a better chance to become an astronaut than becoming an NBA player. So when you finally get to the NBA, you've beat the odds. So when you put on that jersey, everything else is downhill.
- Guilty
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.
- Gratitude
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.
- Best
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
- Good Chance
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
- Fragility
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was only 13 years old when I was forced to face the fragility of my own life. A routine surgery landed me in a medically induced coma for two weeks with a mere 1% chance of surviving. But survive I did.
- Job
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
- Editing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020