Quotes About Opportunity

Apparently when you only have one day, you can say anything and live to tell.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you..." she trails off.

Acho que as coisas estão sempre a acontecer, mas que a pessoa tem de se pôr a jeito para não lhe passarem ao lado.

Há uma parte de mim que sabe que mais um dia não fará diferença nenhuma, a não ser adiar o desgosto. Mas há outra parte de mim que não concorda. É num dia que nascemos. É num dia que morremos. Podemos mudar num dia. E podemos apaixonar-nos num dia. Tudo pode acontecer num único dia.

Tempt fate. See what happens.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you. . . ." she

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap — not one.

don't you think youth comes at the wrong time? When we haven't lived at all. It comes and then it's gone, and we don't even notice.

Truly living required risk.

Today you live, tomorrow you die. Make what you do in the meantime matter. -Troika

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.

Fate says: When a door closes, you're not meant to go in. We say: Kick the door down.

every incident is a learning opportunity, an unplanned investment that was made without our consent.

In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year, which is, at the time of this writing, equivalent to the annual economic output of France, the sixth-largest economy in the world.

on what basis do we decide whether we can accept a new project.

little fish learn to be big fish in little ponds.

business projects, like Phoenix,

The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity.

In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year,

John Allspaw says, every incident is a learning opportunity, an unplanned investment that was made without our consent.

You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.