Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.
Jeffrey Kluger
Related Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. ARNOLD PALMER Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you ... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same... HENRY PAULSON The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also le... TONY GOLDWYN I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... GREG BEHRENDT Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't... CHARLES BARKLEY The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. PATRICIA CLARKSON Some people might say those are pretty good odds, but if you are in that 10-20 percent group, then t... DR. JEFFREY CRIPPIN The odds are always stacked against you. KARI LIZER I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the... MARTIN GARRIX You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... DEYTH BANGER Those auditions - you sit down, and literally the whole time you're there, they scrutinize you, ... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those wh... BILL BRADLEY If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the od... BRETT HOEBEL What are the odds and did you know what's really happening around us!? DEYTH BANGER The odds are that they were killer bees because 99.9 percent of them up here are. That's not as dang... TOM KELLEHER Even when the odds are overwhelming, you can believe in God and His promises. JIM GEORGE The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master... BO BENNETT Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, MARC ABRAHAMS The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you,’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfei... FRANK SONNENBERG Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with.... LAURA BUSH You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv... ISSA RAE If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. The... MAISIE WILLIAMS When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. RENE REDZEPI Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ... KARIN SLAUGHTER The odds of finding a world-class deposit are such that you would be better off buying a lottery tic... FRANK HOLMES Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and ... HAL SUTTON Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you... LARRY KERSTEN The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming ... BILLIE JEAN KING If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can... SCOTT ADAMS I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritaria... EVAN OSNOS I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of ha... NATALIA KILLS People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. S... HA-JOON CHANG The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They'r... CALVIN JOHNSON When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulk... ADAM CAROLLA I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ... GARY ALLAN I keep defying the odds, you know. BUBBA WATSON "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Every mistake you make is only increasing your odds of succeeding NICK LAPORTA If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go t... J. B. PRIESTLEY When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object.... JENNETTE MCCURDY Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly.... LEAH BUSQUE The odds of them stopping this are not high. They are fully committed to walking. MATTHEW DODDS Some of the traits that make you a great entrepreneur also work against you. Examining data of high-... ADEO RESSI Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving yo... JENNA MORASCA Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't... DALTON MCGUINTY It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're tu... BARACK OBAMA When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. ELON MUSK Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ... DEYTH BANGER Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balanc... HARMON KILLEBREW When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't kn... EVA MENDES Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... HARPER LEE I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... JAY-Z If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life... EVEL KNIEVEL I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being fr... JOHN ATKINSON Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to ... DAVE EGGERS In some ways, you have to defy the odds. BOB BALES If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose... JON KATZ I think that terriers are not really the prettiest dogs, but they're scrappy and they're loy... MICHAEL RAYMOND-JAMES People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or w... KENYON MARTIN Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't kn... RUE MCCLANAHAN The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to ma... BILL GROSS Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up... ALI SMITH Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you p... BILLY BEANE As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You wal... TREVOR NOAH You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people a... WYNTON MARSALIS Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hol... JENNIFER LOPEZ Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw... BARRY HANNAH I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li... SUE TOWNSEND Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking ... FELICITY JONES We've got to achieve consolidation and some level of reduction of capacity. The odds are greater tha... JAMES MAY No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. ROBERT GREENE You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - es... CHAD KROEGER In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes a... BILL MURRAY I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volum... CHARLES PELLY There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te... JOHN CUSACK Nothing is real until tested.
You never know what you can do.
Until when the odds are against you,
y... TOM KRAUSE If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky e... RODDY DOYLE I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what ... BEN ZOBRIST As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl... FREDDIE HIGHMORE I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading &... EMILY LEVINE In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they ... BEAU WILLIMON You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the... GARRY MARSHALL Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren'... JOHN KEEGAN
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JEFFREY FRY 'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding an... JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but... LORD JEFFREY Andy Warhol defined Pop Art. JEFFREY DEITCH Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives. JEFFREY DEITCH Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at ... JEFFREY JONES Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. JEFFREY RASLEY Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. C... JEFFREY TOOBIN Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character. JEFFREY FRY Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions. JEFFREY DEITCH Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness. JEFFREY FRY You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit... JEFFREY TAMBOR The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, JEFFREY MCDANIEL We recognize that the typical house built in the 1920s may be smaller than what people want today. BOB JEFFREY The scary thing is that over time, as the downtown builds and you start to lose that fabric, once it... BOB JEFFREY We'll notify everyone who was signed up. BOB JEFFREY After recovering from decades of conflict, Afghanistan needs economic support. BOB JEFFREY Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experie... JEFFREY ZELDMAN With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challen... JEFFREY ZELDMAN A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed st... JEFFREY THOMAS Beware prejudices. 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