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Quotes About Opportunity

Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.
~ Jordan Belfort
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
La gente te hace daño cuando sabe que puede hacerte daño. Si le quitas la oportunidad, la desarmas.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool ' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.
~ Jordin Sparks
Moça de olho baixo é descarada esperando ocasião…
~ Jorge Amado
In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
~ Jorge Bucay
Que nadie se equivoque, cuando se pierde un partido o un campeonato, siempre habrá otras oportunidades; cuando se pierde el estilo, se pierde todo.
~ Jorge Valdano
Let's not malign the restaurants," said Des Hermies. "They afford a very special delight to the person who has the instinct of the inspector. I had an opportunity to gratify this instinct just the other night. I was returning from a call on a patient, and I dropped into one of these establishments where for the sum of three francs you are entitled to soup, two selected dishes, a salad, and a dessert.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A good player is always lucky.
~ Jose Raul Capablanca
They come here seeking gold. May you go to their country seeking a different kind of gold for our needs! But remember, all that glisters is not gold.
~ Jose Rizal
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
~ Joschka Fischer
I think the best place to work in football is England.
~ Jose Mourinho
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
~ Jose Rizal
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
~ Jose Saramago
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
~ Joseph Addison
I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
~ Joseph Addison
Those who follow or "worship" the path of selfishness and pleasure (Avidya), without knowing anything higher, necessarily fall into darkness; but those who worship or cherish Vidya (knowledge) for mere intellectual pride and satisfaction, fall into greater darkness, because the opportunity which they misuse is greater.
~ Joseph B. Lumpkin
When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
~ Joseph Campbell
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
~ Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
~ Joseph Campbell
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
~ Joseph Campbell