35 Quotes by John-Talmage Mathis

It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.

Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps thepeople at the casino thought that this fatigue disease was contagious.Just because I yawn and you yawn shortlyafter doesn’t mean that you have suddenly been infected with narcolepsy. It would be silly if they had in fact thought this.

You’ve looked in the mirror long enough. See everything as if it were narrated by another.

Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.

Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don’t apply. These people often hold positionsin government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?You betcha!

Every player eventually loses all their money.

... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.

In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren’t better alternatives.Don’t ever accept anything blindly— good or bad.

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost.After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins.