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Chance Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not…
- If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions,…
- ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental…
- The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.
More Chance Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a… — Oksana Baiul
- Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. — Abigail Adams
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. — Ernie Banks