Quotes About Opportunity

In the search for a strong and permanent glue, Spencer Silver at 3M in Minneapolis found a weak and temporary adhesive instead. This was in 1968. Nobody could think of a use for it, until five years later a colleague named Art Fry remembered it when irritated by his place-markers falling out of a hymn-book while singing in a church choir. He went back to Silver and asked to apply the glue to small sheets of paper. The only paper lying around was bright yellow. The Post-it note was born.

despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

Dare to be an optimist.

Hamilton was keen to shoot authentic local colour to give the film an American flavour, especially specific details that could not be faked in Europe. The later part of the film was set in Kentucky, but Hamilton found plenty to shoot in Florida. He was particularly proud of one shot of a certain food shop, 'This was too good an opportunity to miss. God is smiling on me. Of course, it's years later that Kentucky Fried Chicken is everywhere!

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

In my career, I've found that only annoying people knock on open doors.

If individual merit considered in isolation were the source of wealth, then excluding more than half of the population from realizing their potential on account of their sex or skin color would be like sabotaging more than half of all factories or making more than half of all homes uninhabitable.

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.

After Commencement Day, the world! Joe said. With Betsy.

You're going to be a writer, he repeated, and you need more education. That's plain. But college isn't the only place to get an education. I have a 'snoggestion.' That was what Mr. Ray always called a particularly good suggestion. I've sounded Mamma out and she approves. How would you like a year abroad?

Social class. Class remains our national awkward topic, usually mumbled over in academic diversity workshops; indeed, most people don't know how to talk about class without automatically coupling it with race. That's because we Americans are loath to recognize that the sky's-the-limit potential we take as our birthright comes at a price far beyond what many Americans--of any race--can afford to pay.

I guess life is full of maybes.

The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?

Luck only holds out for so long

Stevie was not one of those people who thought fate decided for her. Fate was making choices. Fate was at least trying.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.

It's too late, Peter.

Had they stayed in Pakistan and moved to cities, being exposed to education and work in a language they already spoke, the women in these families might have arguably secured greater independence and decision making than they did in Britain. Two generations after arrival, British Muslim women often remained less educated and less likely to work than women from British Indian families of Hindu or Sikh background, who had emigrated from urban centers and were already better educated.

In Syria, being poor narrowed the world, especially for women. Dua never could have hoped to attend university, couldn't even have explained, probably, what a marketing course would entail or set her up for.