Quotes About Opportunity

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.

It had been surprisingly easy to begin a new life.

But he had not been able to go to her. That was no longer an option in his life.

Life is fraught with risks

If only she had not gone to London for that particular Season when she was eighteen. If only she had not attended that particular ball at its start. If only . . . But life was made up of seemingly small, unimportant, chance events that together created the pattern of one's existence. There was no changing the pattern of hers. It had led her to this very difficult moment.

Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando sólo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en nuestra vida. Este es un momento feliz. Lo recordaré.

It was a development that she had desired for a long time. But now surely was the wrong time for it to happen.

Did disasters sometimes happen to turn one away from a wrong course into the right one, the one that would bring the most happiness and the greatest fulfillment?

She did not want to dance with him. But it was one thing not to want to do so and quite another not to be given a chance to do so. Lord Crensford did not come near her during the first three sets, and after that it was perfectly clear to her that he had no intention of doing so. She was not to have the satisfaction of refusing him.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

Había ciertos momentos en los que la vida daba un giro que cambiaba por completo el curso establecido. Y era característico que dichos momentos sucedieran sin previo aviso, dejando al interesado sin tiempo para considerar sus opciones o razonar consigo mismo sobre las repercusiones. De modo que solo quedaba tomar una decisión apresurada de la que casi se podía decir que dependería el resto de la vida.

Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]

the best man for the job can sometimes be a four-year-old girl.

When the bet is placed, he said, a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich.

better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

What will you do with your one precious, wild life?

That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.