Quotes About Opportunity

A cowchip is paradise for a fly.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

The only thing that mattered was the quarter century or so he had remaining would be HIS life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that...The possibilities...were endless.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place—then it won't make a damn.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

In 1969 Billy Casper was going into a job he didn't want. Today he'd be lucky to get a part-time casual job in a far more hostile world. Maybe we should ask what went wrong.

Take the first step... and the next will be revealed.

All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.

As Joseph Campbell says, if you move in the direction of your passions, opportunities tend to appear that you couldn't have imagined and that weren't otherwise there.

This is true of your own life. If you open yourself to new experiences, the odds improve exponentially of one of those experiences changing your world in a profoundly positive

We don't know who we can be until we know what we can do.

Whether you're disabled or not, issues of attitude are of paramount importance in finding your Element. A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force. Without it, even a person in perfect physical shape is at a comparative disadvantage. In my experience, most people have to face internal obstacles of self-doubt and fear as much as any external obstacles of circumstance and opportunity.

The features are aptitude and passion. The conditions are attitude and opportunity. The sequence goes something like this: I get it; I love it; I want it; Where is it?

Me dio miedo dejar el laboratorio —dice— pero no tanto como la perspectiva de quedarme en él. Mi consejo es que si estás pensando en dar este tipo de salto, lo mejor es que hagas como un lemming y saltes.»

Compare these accomplishments with the premature resignation of people you know in their thirties or forties, who behave as if their lives have settled into a dull routine and who see little opportunity to change and evolve.

PRINCIPLE #2: YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Whatever your history and circumstances, you should never feel locked in by what has happened to you up to now. It is often said that you cannot change the past but you can change the future. And so you can, because of your very nature as a human being.

El Elemento tiene dos características principales, y hay dos condiciones para estar en él. Las características son: capacidad y vocación. Las condiciones son: actitud y oportunidad. La secuencia es más o menos así: lo entiendo; me encanta; lo quiero; ¿dónde está?

no aceptas que piensas el mundo de muchas maneras diferentes, estarás limitando inexorablemente tus posibilidades de encontrar a la persona que se supone que tienes que ser. Una

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Conflict always provides an opportunity to glorify God, that is, to bring him praise and honor by showing who he is, what he is like, and what he is doing.