Quotes About Opportunity

Luck isn't a wheelbarrow, Maurice; it works better if you don't push it. Stay

That's life and track though; you work hard for just a few chances

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

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But as you look at the sweep of your life and start to think of a legacy that survives beyond it, giving others the opportunity to live up to their creative capacity seems like a worthy purpose.

Innovation is now recognized as the single most important ingredient in any modern economy.

the chance to leave your old self behind. To take all your mistakes and regrets and erase them from the story. Who wouldn't want that?

I'm just saying people don't always make the right choices in life. That doesn't mean they have to be stuck with them.

The past is not alive to them the way it is to Georges; they do not remember—and thus do not see the reality of things. That reality is the dream Georges has come to embody: that a black man can become a nobleman and be better educated and more talented and powerful than the white plantation owners.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

I recommend that you make all of your major moves on the first of April. Just in case.)

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.

There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.

Every exit is an Entry somewhere else.

in desperate need of an infusion of a sense of the possible.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."19

It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.

Everything bad that ever happened to him happened because he couldn't read.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Do what you please in the City, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do.

Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.

Muchos de nosotros tenemos necesidades inmediatas por las que oramos. Quizá incluso oramos con frecuencia por ellas; pero, si no nos movemos con fe, limitamos la oportunidad de ver la mano sobrenatural de Dios.