TAKING CHANCES.
'Take a chance says the-captain of a team. Don't fuhk-^-go right in. You may ntft bring it off; on the other hand, you r may. That's the idea. There's just as much iehance of. being successful as of being a failure. It-s a conundrum why: * we/ always choose to' expect the latter! 'More people think of failing than of succeeding. •
A man who never takes a chance never gets far; How can he? He must ever stay in a groove—-a rut ,and,> Hke'Macawi : ber ,he Hopes ana prays that by waiting: and trusting to the law of averages •something is bound to turn up. He does > ' not think for a moment that it will be' ■riHimseif'that will turn up"; but that is what'sometimes happens. ! Airtack is always better than defence,, although ,of course, you can't succeed; very much if you've? all uttack and' no] defende. The boxer who wins the cham-1 pionship is he who feiows how to doboth. ;
Tt is a" miserable life that never ' takesJ a chance. There is no colour, no inspiration in such a mind. Of course,' you! must not throw all discretion and care' and watchfulness to the wind when you; did take a chance. That would be mad-ness.-^—G.H.G. in an exchange.
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 46, 24 April 1930, Page 6
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209TAKING CHANCES. Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 46, 24 April 1930, Page 6
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