Quotes About Opportunity

This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places," Raven says.

You may have envisioned half a dozen potential markets for your product, but as soon as you open your doors, one just explodes from the pack and becomes so instantly important that good business sense dictates that you abandon the others and concentrate all your efforts.

Since most hackers are white males, their companies are disaster areas when it comes to diversity, and it follows that all of the diversity must be concentrated in the one or two employees who are not hackers.

can't say I mourned my failure overmuch, as it meant I'd get a free trip to New Orleans out of it, and that would rock be most excellent. I DROVE BACK to the office late in the day to find Tristan collapsed on the couch from exhaustion.

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

I don't think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It's because they have nothing to lose. They simultaneously have a lot of time on their hands and yet are very impatient to get on with their lives.

But thoughts of this sort were chased away by others. One of those moments had arrived: Jack had been presented with the opportunity to be stupid in some way that was much more interesting than being shrewd would've been. These moments seemed to come to Jack every few days.

If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people only go further and further astray until they find destruction. But if you take this opportunity to consider where you have gone wrong, and to adjust your course, it tells me that you shall do well enough in the end.

His own professional journey, since then, could be seen as the single-minded pursuit of weird stuff, and the shedding, at every opportunity, of all responsibilities that didn't qualify as such.

Gold is where you find it.

And, Randy's favorite, As to luck, there is the old miners' proverb: "Gold is where you find it.

Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.

A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.

Life begins at the end of our comfort zone.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

all of life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opportunities for you to decide, and be, Who You Are.

Opportunity, not obligation, is the cornerstone of religion, the basis of all spirituality. So long as you see it the other way around, you will have missed the point.

If not now, when? If not you, who?

Nothing happens by chance. Nothing.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.

Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.

Discoveries can come in many different ways, and the most important thing is to be ready for them.