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Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Filmmakers now have the freedom to create the type of movie they want. More screenwriters, directors, and producers now have the chance to see their words on screen now that VOD and streaming outlets are available. Overall, it's a good thing for filmmaking and documentarians.

Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina also criticized Donald Trump during the campaign, but now she was arguing that the new president deserves a chance to prove himself, and that, perhaps, you know, having a march just the day after his inauguration is kind of disrespectful.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much: the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.