Odds – Quotes

My personal opinion is

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another. Ezra Miller

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite. Eve Ensler

Odds are just the

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion. Evander Holyfield

To what extent does

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It … Read more

There is no risk

There is no risk factor at all, the odds don’t matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%. Esther Hicks

You should never bet

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. Ernest Rutherford

The day when the

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and … Read more

The odds of going

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. Erma Bombeck

For those who say

For those who say you’re thinking too big… be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small … be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?… look them in the eyes and say, I’ll figure it out. Eric Schmidt

Science and vision are

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: ‘If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.’ I’d like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, … Read more