Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.
When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
Good luck has its storms.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
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.
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.
We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.
If there is a chance to do so, I want to work with Stephen Chow in a romantic comedy film.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.
My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
I still do believe in the power of the Internet for good. I believe it's a net positive. I believe that it does connect people. It does give people a chance to be more of themselves. It does allow for content to be created for audiences that were being completely ignored and neglected.
The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'
I liked playing video games because I felt like I was inside of the story in a way that I didn't feel when I was just watching something. Any chance I could get to step into the shoes of another person, I would take. I couldn't get enough of stories.
Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Yes, I used to miss my childhood, but I did get a chance to relive it through Esha and Ahaana.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.