“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
“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.” SometimesMightStarsChanceNeededTwins Author:Rachel Hartman
“The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.” IfsDifferentChanceDoubtFourRiskDangerousAmountNeededManagementInstitutionsUniversityFinancialFinanceThanksDataImmenseMasterpieceCollectingHarvardRisk ManagementFinancial InstitutionsKennethMaryland Author:Martin Wolf
“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.” YearsHomeFormThreeLeftParentChanceFootballNeededBallsThree YearsDivorcedSecond Chance Author:Vinnie Jones
“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.” GivingTryingEndsLastsChanceActingMonthsNeededDecidedQuittingLoserTry AgainLast Chance Author:Judi Shekoni
“Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.” KnowsWantGivingFeelsBelieveWellsKindMatterChanceNeededPaidSatisfactionLawyerAccomplishment Author:Jeffrey Toobin
“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
“I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!” PeopleIfsGivingMayI CanHelpingWantedDesireChanceAdviceExampleInspirePrayingNeededUpliftingInterfereSuggestionsI PrayRadiantInferenceDictation Author:Elbert Hubbard
“I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.” YearsHouseChanceQualityMinutesNeededMy FriendsCookingGet AwayFamily And FriendsGood QualityQuality Time Author:Tristan Prettyman
“Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.” GivingYearsFightingChanceCrimeNeededProgramMinimumOffenseFistsFundingSecond ChanceJuvenile Author:Bobby Scott
“Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!” TryingMayGuyDiesPoliticsChanceHellNeededCancerScaredBillionsHolesFoxesProstateProstate Cancer Author:Ted Turner
“Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.” WarChanceNeededElementsAbsentChances AreGamble Book:On War Source: On War