Quotes About Opportunity

Relax! Once you open the door to the knock of opportunity, you will never relax again.

Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

I helped put two children through Harvard—my broker's children. —Michael LeBoeuf

There is a crucially important difference about playing the game of investing compared to virtually any other activity. Most of us have no chance of being as good as the average in any pursuit where others practice and hone skills for many, many hours. But we can be as good as the average investor in the stock market with no practice at all. Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Stocks for the Long Run

Don't look for the needle. Buy the haystack.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.

Do you believe everything can change in the space of one breath?

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

He told me the single most important thing for a hitter was "to get a good ball to hit.

Neuroanatomy isn't destiny. Neither is genetics. They don't define who you will be. But they do define who you might be. They define who you can be.

By cultivating the autistic mind on a brain-by-brain, strength-by-strength basis, we can reconceive autistic teens and adults in jobs and internships not as charity cases but as valuable, even essential, contributors to society.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

If you are never scared or embarassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.