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“About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.”

People Knows Chance Successful Rich Subjects Wind One Day Miles Ships Tides Harbors Port Entrances Drifting Rudders Adrift Coastline

Author:Earl Nightingale

“Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.”

Way Chance Cases Subjects One Way Avert Predestined

Author:Quintus Tullius Cicero

“Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.”

Way Mean Purpose Chance Cases Subjects Logic Insight Complicated Certainty Operations Reasoning Principal Thorough Inference

Book:A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

“The bravest men are subject most to chance.”

Men Chance Subjects Bravery

Book:The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes

Source: The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes

“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.”

Differences Chance Results Subjects Effects Approach Cameras Photographer Significant

Author:Andreas Feininger

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

Giving Writing Kind Children Feelings Running Parent Chance Race Situation Novel Subjects Adults Mercy Response

Author:Nina Bawden

“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.”

Years Humans Two Wanted Certain Felt Chance Human Beings Break Subjects Mines Decided Wake Up Entertainment Afternoon Bunnies

Author:Raven-Symone

“I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.”

Want Persons Made I Can Different Stuff Chance Decision Subjects Information Comfort Projects Originals Zone Different Things Comfort Zone

Author:Brian Grazer

“I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.”

Way Kind Children Matter Song Stuff Chance Consciousness Subjects Singing Abuse Guitar Heavy Alternatives Evolve Metals Child Abuse Take A Chance Subject Matter Heavy Metal

Author:Billy Corgan

“History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.”

People Kind Life Is Left Chance Subjects Tables Awful Manners Uncertainty Flavor Disturbed Biographers Table Manners Horsing Around

Author:David McCullough