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“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.”

Thinking May Chance Company Thousand Selling Investors Chances Are Enron

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Different Sometimes Hard Chance Results Mistake If I Could Making Mistakes Mentality Good Chance Different Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.”

Thinking Want Trying Made Done Chance Embarrassed Torment Another Chance

Author:Sam Raimi

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

Thinking Art Able Earth Literature Heaven Chance Stupid Skills Art Is Atheist Foolish Fabric Heaven And Earth Oysters

Author:Anatole France

“It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.”

People Thinking Feels Writing Chance Special Creatures Ordinary Urges Ordinary People Scratches Mislead

Book:How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You

Source: How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You

“Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.”

Thinking Opportunity Chance Offers Take A Chance Making Changes

Author:Jean Smart

“We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.”

Thinking Past Opportunity Chance Our Lives Our Past Second Chance

Author:Jean Smart

“If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Can Do Chance Roles Auditions Can Do Something

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.”

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Author:Niki Taylor

“The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.”

Thinking Should Together Chance Mines Regret Should Have Divorce Mum Back Together Getting Back Together

Author:Carol Vorderman

“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.”

Ifs Thinking Chance Study Higher Findings Driven Architecture Farmers Swiss Practicality

Author:Peter Zumthor

“I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.”

Thinking Actors Chance Cameras

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.”

People Thinking Way Mean Helping Chance Jokes Celebrate Shirts T Shirt Bowling Plumber Craziest Bowlers

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.”

Thinking Country Chance University Texas Finest University Of Texas

Author:Tom Hicks

“Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.”

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Author:Roy Lessin

“I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.”

Ifs Thinking Next President Chance Deals Air Best Things

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.”

Thinking Chance Cases Horror Isolation Powerlessness

Author:Adam Arkin

“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”

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Author:O. Henry

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Real Might Religion Understanding Chance Divine Ego Seconds Experiencing Something

Author:John Cleese

“I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.”

Ifs Thinking Opportunity Chance Opponents Bully

Author:Venus Williams

“Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.”

Thinking Moving Used Chance Greater Player Seven Coaches Parting Breakdown Ucla Veracity Moving Parts

Author:Skip Prosser

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.”

People Thinking Years Artist Chance Starting Greece Starting Over Philippines New Places New Artists

Author:Thalia

“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Different Action Chance Intelligent Response Observation Suggestions Emancipation Inference Fatality

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Chance New York Hectic I Love New York

Author:Alicia Vikander

“It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.”

People Thinking World Should Helping Chance Simple Awareness Simple Things

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.”

People Thinking Chance Party Normal Yeah Bunch Leafs Fresh Start

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

“Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.”

“Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.”

Ifs Thinking Men War Remember Winning Chance

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“I’m very romantic. I really believe in true love, a love that you only find once in a lifetime, if you have the chance. Because, I think that many people never find it, which is very sad. But, I’m not a guy who flirts easily with girls. I believe that there’s somebody out there for me. I’m still searching.”

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Author:Bill Kaulitz

“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.”

“I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes.”

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Author:Theo Epstein

“I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Faces Names Chance Ran Assumption Senate Killers Underestimate Hussein Seriousness

Author:Barack Obama

“As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.”

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Author:Spike Lee

“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.”

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Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

“I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Together Spirit Chance Forever Risk Married Insanity Timing Getting Married Together Forever

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances. As a bookseller, there are less real bookstores and more people buying on-line. As a writer, I think there are fewer paths to break through on a big press, but on the other hand there are more small presses doing awesome work now. Overall, artistically, I think it's a pretty exciting time in the literary world.”

People Thinking World Feels Real Hands Bigs Lines Chance Break Path Changed Bigger Exciting Presses Buying Fewer Bookstores Format Break Through Booksellers

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.”

“I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.”

Thinking Long Important Chance Generations Information Internet Flow Tools Presses Invention Future Generation Printing Printing Press

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.”

Thinking Feels Years Given Chance Havens New York Yeah Broadway Given Up Unfinished

Author:Eva LaRue

“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Dream Chance My Own Rooms Like You Letting Go Comfortable

Author:Britney Spears