Quotes About Opportunity

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.

That left only one possibility:

I gave S. a "Do you want to take over?" look.

Yet although the odds were against me, it wasn't as if I had no chance of succeeding.

Given a choice, people wriggle out, and those choices are not offered equally.

They belong to the connected and the knowledgeable, to insiders over outsiders, to the doctor's child but not the truck driver's. If choice cannot go to everyone, maybe it is better when it is not allowed at all.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

But for whatever reasons—hubris, inattention, wishful thinking, hesitation, or the uncertainty of the moment—I let the opportunity pass.

I had seen the procedure done. Now it was my turn to try.

In many the entry point is never found at all.)

To succeed, however, it must be done early.

Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other's difference with respect.

each one of us is here because somebody before us did something to make it possible.

To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use. Each of us is blessed in some particular way, whether we recognize our blessings or not.

If you conquer the bread problem, that gives you at least a chance to look around at the others.

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Eli: Freedom is what you make it. Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

Where there is nothing, absolutely anything is possible.

No matter how awful something is, you can always sell tickets.

And possibility was my fuel. It was the One Thing that prevented me from slitting my wrists on any given horrid day. The fact that at any moment, everything could change.