Quotes About Opportunity

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.

Sometimes, we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

Fight or flight. when you have to jump, do it.

Choose life, Ki. Choose it one more time.

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time." I was totally confused. "In the car?" "In your life," he said.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

A little danger adds spice to life.

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen, I said.

Autoimmunity is internalized by patients as an opportunity for the ultimate self-management project. But in fact it is a manifestation of a flawed collective project. If it is an indictment of anything, it is an indictment not of our personhood but of our impulse to see social problems as being about our personhood, instead of a consequence of our collective shortcomings as co-citizens of this place and time.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

We may not have tomorrow, but we have tonight.

It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know." —Merlin, The Sword in the Stone

What's certain is that I'm not going to be stuck with my parents' limited options. My mom graduated top of her class in the Philippines, but in America she cleans up vomit in a hospital, and my dad, the smartest man I know, drives a bus for a living.

life itself is a glorious opportunity.

Dance is one thing to do with your life. But it is not the only thing.

The right wave will come. When it does, grab your board, jump on, and ride it for all it's worth.

Everything comes at its appointed moment. —Joseph R. Sizoo

I learned how to make something out of almost nothing, instead of nothing out of something.

We can be grateful for each opportunity to generously give.

Overreacting may impair our mental functioning. Decisiveness is hindered by worrying about what other people think, telling ourselves we have to be perfect, and telling ourselves to hurry. We falsely believe we can't make the "wrong" choice, we'll never have another chance, and the whole world waits and rises on this particular decision. We don't have to do these things to ourselves.