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  • To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

    Hurt   Failure   Thinking  
    DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”
  • Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

    Laughter   Sleep   Odds  
  • Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

    "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.
  • Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

    Source: inthesetimes.com
  • Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

    Home   Odds   Insanity  
  • Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  • If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

  • A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

    Running   Heart   Men  
    "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". Book by Cormac McCarthy, Chapter II, 1985.
  • We are here to laugh at the odds.

    Odds   Laughing  
    "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.
  • Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.

    Smart   Odds   Temptation  
  • People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

    "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.
  • If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

    Odds   Practice   Tasks  
  • Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

    Odds   Secret   Lightning  
  • Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

    Running   Silly   Book  
  • There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.

    Morning   Children   Odds  
    Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
  • Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

    Odds   People   Example  
    "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.
  • If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

    Dream   Odds   Down And  
  • Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

    Beautiful   Art   Stupid  
  • It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

    Mistake   Writing   Odds  
    Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014
  • If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

    Believe   Heart   Odds  
  • Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

    Wise   Fighting   Men  
    Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986
  • And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.

    Funny   Humor   Gay  
    Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham
  • The biggest piece of advice that I give young comedians is: If it's your goal to get where I'm at, go do something else. Because you'll never get here. Never. The odds are so bad. Because not only do you have to be a really, really strong comedian but you also have to be lucky. And most people don't get that combination.

    Strong   Odds   People  
    Source: www.dead-frog.com
  • However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

    Suicide   Suicidal   Men  
    "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.
  • Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

    Struggle   Winning   Men  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan
  • I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

    Crazy   Thinking   Odds  
    "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.
  • Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

    Our World   Odds   Doors  
  • Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky you aren't one of the first ones, " he growled.People were even making bets about whether you'd show. " "Really?" I asked cheerfully. "What kind of odds are there on that? Because I can still change my mind and put down my own bet. Make a little pocket money.

    Nice   Odds   People  
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