“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.” IfsWorldHardWould BeKidsWantedSchoolJobsAmericaFeltParentChanceClassCareersGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMiddle ClassGood School Author:Al Franken
“My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.” WorldWayIdeasFatherFeltChanceTeachingTraditionalWay In Life Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.” WinningFeltSportsChanceGolfPerseveranceMotivational SportsOddsInspirational SportsNever QuitAthleticGolfingI QuitGolf LifeGreat GolfFunny GolfMotivational Inspirational SportsGreat GolfingFunny GolfingAgainst All OddsGreat Inspirational SportsGreat Motivational SportsAthletic InspirationalAgainst The OddsMotivational GolfOverwhelming OddsOdds Against You Author:Arnold Palmer
“Playing with Aaron Rodgers, every time I went into a game you always felt like no matter what happens, he was going to bail you out somehow. He was that kind of guy. He was one of the three or four guys you have in the league right now that no matter where you are or what’s going on in the game, you have a chance with him.” KindMatterHappensGuyThreeGamesFeltChanceFourRight NowNo Matter WhatLeagueWhere You AreBailAaron Rodgers Author:Charles Woodson
“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.” PeopleFeelsCoursesFeltChanceStudyGenerationsMasteryEntitledAffirming Book:In Defense of Elitism Source: In Defense of Elitism
“We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.” ThinkingYearsTogetherLastsFallWinningStrongFeltSportsChanceLast YearChampionshipGood ChancePrevious Years Author:Sterling Marlin
“I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.” IfsMenFeelsHappensFeltChanceGroupsTerribleLike SomethingLarge Groups Author:Josh Radnor
“Do not miss a single chance - not one single opportunity - to tell someone how wonderful they are, how special they are, how important to you they are, how incredible as a person they are, how beautiful they are inside and out. Do not miss a single opening in which to insert such a comment, genuinely felt and genuinely meant.” PersonsImportantBeautifulOpportunityFeltChanceWonderfulSpecialMissingIncrediblesOpeningComplimentCommentGood PersonRespecting OthersKind WordsInsertAdmiration And RespectAmazing Person Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.” IfsFeltFearChanceEnemyGrowingRiskOffersCreatingMy FriendsSomething NewCreating Something Author:Eartha Kitt
“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.” FeelsKindMadeBookHandsGivenFeltChanceNumbersMinesWeaponsCriticsSizeReputationSatNew BooksRectifyGiven A ChanceBring Me Down Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.” YearsHumansTwoWantedCertainFeltChanceHuman BeingsBreakSubjectsMinesDecidedWake UpEntertainmentAfternoonBunnies Author:Raven-Symone
“I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.” FeelsShouldHelpingFeltChanceObligationFortunateNbaLess FortunateThose Less Fortunate Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.” WayBelieveMayLongEndsSeemsKidsLostFeltChanceResponsibilityRocksNeededBlueBottomI RealizedLike MeMy WayHurdleDead EndsWindyLost Friend Author:Victor Cruz
“Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’” LittlesSaidStatesSchoolFacesFeltBitsBlackChanceMajorsLittle BitLettersHarderSouthUniversityCoachesGreat ThingsHeyValleysDominantFace To FaceMississippiTalk To MeJerryMississippi State Author:Jerry Rice
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.” PeopleKnowsBelieveWellsI BelieveFeltChanceInternetPressesDetermineReactionsChosenProducersWinnerViewersSecond Chance Author:Simon Cowell
“Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.” MeanLongSaidRealHandsPoliticalOpportunityLostFeltChanceOpinionAchieveReturnLong TimeElectionArguingRussiaPeacefulRealisticRegimesPresidencyDeprivedPutinAssessmentPrematureRegime Change Author:Garry Kasparov