B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.