Quotes About Opportunity

Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds.

ou think life goes on forever? You think behind every chance there's another chance and another one and another one? It's the worse kind of extravegance the way you spend your chances, Birdee.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Every day is a brand new day!

So I get a second chance?" "You haven't used up the first one yet.

You must gamble for your own survival, for once you have survived, you will have become something more than what you were.

Why not live your adventure, seeing as you're stuck with it?

We have to make good use of the tools that fall in our lap, no matter how sharp they seem to our clumsy fingers.

There's a time and place for everything, and you are surely in the right place at the moment.

How fortunate to find these creatures here; their acquaintance might provide more experience than he could have hoped for.

Our roles should be reversed. You'd thrive on this.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual.

history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination.

Blah, blah, blah, regret to inform you that DI Gray has tendered his resignation; blah, blah, blah; opportunity to reward performance; blah, blah, blah; suggestions by next Wednesday. McPherson had scribbled, "BEATTIE?" in the margin in red biro. Idiot. Logan stuck the memo back in the drawer. Detective Sergeant Beattie couldn't arrest his own backside with three patrol cars and a search warrant.

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.