Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'

I'm not afraid of taking big shots and things like that. It's a 50-50 chance. It might go in, it might not, but I'm not scared to take it.

Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn't really contributing anything to the scene.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

What do you say to taking chances?

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

What is life, but one long risk?

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.