Best elements & chance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Moments Might Three Courses Hours Chance Results Succeed Elements Winter Storm Snow Fierce Fifth Avenues February Fifth Avenue Snow Storms

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Winning Left Chance Sin Risk Elements Tragedy Finished Caution Avoided

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.”

Ifs Men Character Faces Heaven Chance Habit Taste Elements

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.”

Thinking Littles Shows Next Waiting Enjoy Chance One Day Elements Sitting Surprise Lifetime Phones Come Up Fantastic Next Day Show Business Phone Calls Element Of Surprise

Author:Elton John

“I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.”

Writing Action Chance Elements Stable Action Movie Heist

Author:Jason Statham

“Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.”

Trying I Can Reality Chance Study Elements Mechanic Chances Are Elements Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.”

Done Film Games Chance Elements Outcomes Uncertain

Author:Jørgen Leth

“No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.”

Humans War Play Chance Activity Elements Luck Bounds Human Activity Guesswork

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.”

War Chance Four Danger Elements Climate Uncertainty Exertion Four Elements

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.”

War Chance Needed Elements Absent Chances Are Gamble

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.”

Stories Feelings Hands Lying Chance Fiction Elements Critical Display Falsehood Thrill Sleight Of Hand Deepest Feelings

Author:John Cheever

“Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.”

Looks Children Ideas Might Happens Chance Dog Depends Praying Elements Angel Photographer Photograph Critical Abundance I Pray Serendipity Lumber

Author:Sally Mann

“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.”

Thinking Kind Song Chance Space Elements Standards Performances Ultimate Exciting Various Versions Manifestation Multiple Improvisation Sacredness

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”

Two Self Desire Sides Water Chance Consciousness Fire Elements Shadow Splits Dice Archetype Synthesis

Author:Chris Abani

“My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means.”

Giving Trying Mean Kids Lost Chance Wife Dog Elements My Family Grateful My Wife Adopted Puppy

Author:Dan Payne

“It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.”

People Thinking Trying Humans Earth Fighting Community Chance Human Beings Worst Elements Islam Horrible Pushing Rescue Stopping Accelerate Great Faith Muslim Community Pushing Back

Author:Van Jones

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

Should Ideas School Chance Quality Equal Elements Should Have Notion Equality Pursuit Opening Traditional Endowment

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.”

May I Can Play America Courses Chance Tree Elements Hopefully Sand Australia Links Scotland Belts Golfers Backyards

Author:Tiger Woods

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