Quotes About Opportunity

Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

We were at the edge of space. The boundary I'd dreamed of crossing my entire life. I'd never really believed I'd get the chance to do it during my lifetime—let alone today, when I should've been in my first-period civics class.

Now, thanks to the ONI, I could. And I did.

ARC@DIA will be where it's at!

El Riesgo Siempre Vive

And sometimes, when you think you've finally reached the end of the game, suddenly you find yourself standing at the start of a whole new level.

And sometimes, when you think you've finally reached the end of the game, suddenly you find yourself standing at the start of a whole new level. A level that you've never seen before. And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing. Because the game that is your life still isn't over yet. And there's no telling how far you might be able to get, what you might discover, or who you might meet when you get there.

The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.

as long as we were both still alive, there was a chance I could make things right with her.

And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing. Because the game that is your life still isn't over yet. And there's no telling how far you might be able to get, what you might discover, or who you might meet when you get there.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

opportunity of winning food and shelter, man can live and even find his laughter ringing true.

que la naturaleza había hecho un gran error al darle la juventud a los jóvenes, porque los jóvenes no sabían aprovecharla. La juventud debería ser para los viejos, porque sólo uno estando viejo sabía aprovechar la juventud.

In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.