I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

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.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.