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" Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes. "

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" It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter. "

Neil Patrick Harris

Chance

Good

Play

" The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself. "

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Life

Truth

Opportunity

" Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other. "

" Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. "

" I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world. "

" Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me. "

Jeev Milkha Singh

Chance

Mob

" For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. "

" Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. "

William Feather

Good Luck

Luck

" The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level. "

Jason Statham

Chance

You

" The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper. "

" I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play. "

" In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate. "

" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways... I'm a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans. "

" I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this. "

" No man was ever wise by chance. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wise

Wisdom

Man

" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

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

" I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. "

" The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes. "

" Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor. "

" If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. "

Paul Harvey

Will

Chance

" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "

" The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. "

" I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose. "

" Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No. "

" Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. "

" We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset? "

" If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. "