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You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.
If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.
It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.
You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.
Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.
I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.
No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.
Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.