Seneca the Younger Quotes

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

Events are always in the saddle.

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Does fate ever play by the rules?