Quotes About Opportunity

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

The life of the mind is only open to rich people.

Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it!

the chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is.

As I have previously said, the chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour; it is kept for you. I said the affair was a miracle. Is it not?

As I have previously said, the chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career. Which fact is very gratifying and reassuring. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -Horace

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...

An author should never turn down the opportunity for a new experience

Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.

There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.

It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port—or at least in orbit—waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Mankind.

No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.

Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.