Quotes About Opportunity

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.

It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it.

One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.

Every day you die a little and get a new chance to find out how next to live.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

One of my favorite Zen sayings is "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

now is always the best time to begin.

Any beginning is a time of special power for habit creation, and at certain times we experience a clean slate, in which circumstances change in a way that makes a fresh start possible—if we're alert for the opportunity.

Life is too short to save your good china or your good lingerie or your good ANYTHING for later because truly, later may never come

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.

Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin's "We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss" and Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate future.

Najbolje stvari u životu pro?u jer prvo govorimo "još je rano, a zatim "suviše je kasno.

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken-