Top 45 Take A Chance Quotes

I feel unfulfilled in England. I think I’m a decent manager and a very good coach. I’ve still got a lot to offer some club who will maybe take a chance on me.

People don’t wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that’s what it was, it’s like that in every single level I’ve been in, from little league to high school and college.

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I’m here in person to tell you it ain’t so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

I think that’s what happens when you get scared, and you’re rushing, and you don’t have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get the innovative show, it’s very difficult.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

When I get moved to write a story, I don’t question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: ‘You can’t do that’, ‘You shouldn’t do that’. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

I don’t think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on ‘X Factor.’ There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. ‘X Factor’ seemed like the only way out.

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.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good – whether it’s on vinyl, CD or cassette – if it’s not too expensive, I’ll take a chance.

We had a pretty good life, growing up in Taiwan, and I think my dad really made a concerted effort to say hey, we’re going to take a chance and go halfway around the world so that my kids can have more opportunities.

There was a time when ‘Batman’ really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they’d be taking people away from the story.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

We’ve heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don’t want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it’s just that most of them are white males.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That’s part of why you’re there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.

Playing it safe isn’t fun; you have to take a chance.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, ‘Your stuff has to look like something that’s out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.’

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people’s homes – then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

It was like I have always had big dreams for my drag aspirations, and I talked myself into doing ‘Drag Race.’ I’m like, take a chance.

There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Don’t listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they’d sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it’s cheaper – sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you’re going to be mad.

One of the things I’ve learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

I’m not the type of person that could take someone else’s funds and take a chance with them.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

In the early ’70s – a very good time for children’s books and their authors – editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I’ve never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it’s terrific and sometimes it’s not.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

There’s no better place than Vegas to take a chance and gamble on love.

Hendrick definitely realises that we’re young and trying to learn – and wrecking cars is part of how you learn. Jeff Gordon went through 20 something clips in his first season, but Rick Hendrick realised he had to take a chance on Jeff Gordon. They wrecked a lot of cars, but Jeff Gordon has given him four championships.

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors – and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn’t let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It’s just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

For me as an actor, I oftentimes wish producers would take a chance and cast me against type, and they often don’t, so when you get a chance, you do it. At least I do.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that’s just a part of life.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.