Quotes About Opportunity

Suppose you applied this principle outside bridge? Suppose that coincidence and other chance happenings weren't really as chancy as they looked? Suppose there were individuals with a special aptitude for calling the turns, making the breaks? But that was a pretty obvious idea—nothing to give a person the shiver it had given him.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.

La mera posibilidad no es todavía una libertad.

When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn't yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

And Emerson once claimed that we Americans needed the boundless West in order to become ourselves, to stop being pseudo-Europeans.

Ordinary people just like you, with ordinary reserves of cash, have achieved great results in real estate investment, and you can too.

I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.

I want one of the top three, but if they aren't available, we'll pick someone else. There are some good young fighters, undefeated guys, and guys with wins and losses on their record.

I know, every fighter knows, you've got to pile up wins in a row. You can't lose two in a row, three in a row and then you hear mentions of losing your job.

I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.

We see fighters fight their whole career and never get a title shot. It doesn't matter if they rack up 10 wins if people think they're boring. We all know how it works.

I think in the end football wins hopefully, and people start looking at all scenarios. In the end I just want to be a manager. Forget whatever colour you are - that's the way it should be really.

Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.

I'm about the wins and any time I get to touch the ball, hopefully I can make something good happen with it.

You are going to run into some bad stretches - that's just part of the season - but while we're playing well and feeling good, we have to take advantage and get as many wins as we can.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

I get cast at the last minute. I don't know, maybe somebody drops out and they can't get someone, and someone is like, 'Oh, how about Katia Winter?'

If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.

Our sport is one of the few on the winter side that is so diverse. It shows we don't have to be limited by race or gender or whatever and how far we have come as a sport.