Nick Randolph tagged me a while ago as part of the ‘5-things’ tagging meme pervading the ‘blogosphere’. Try as I might, I couldn’t find 5 things about me that I thought others would be interested in knowing (sad, I know), so instead here’s a few quotes and food for thought from interesting people about chance:
Chance favours the prepared mind – Louis Pasteur.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come – Abraham Lincoln
God does not play dice [with the universe] – Albert Einstein
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance – Juvenal (55 AD – 127 AD)
No victor believes in chance – Friedrich Nietzsche
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on – Winston Churchill
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience – Laurence Peter
Great lives are the culmination of great thoughts followed by great actions – Peter Sinclair
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish – Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD)
The Churchill quote is a bit of an odd one out.