Quotes About Opportunity

Una de las ventajas de ser un pez pequeño es que nunca se esperan que vayas a devolver el mordisco.

Il futuro è come un fiume, così largo e imponente che non si può cambiare né invertirne il corso. Tuttavia, è formato da una miriade di piccoli affluenti che invece è possibile deviare. Puoi cambiare il tuo futuro, perché molte tue azioni dipendono soltanto da te.

todo en la vida supone un riesgo, ¿no?

There's no great loss without some small gain.

What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.

The way I see it, nothing in life is a rehearsal. It's not preparation for anything else. There's no getting ready for it. There's no waiting for the real part to begin. Not ever.

Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it. -Cora

Every little decision you made, every person you met could change your life, set it on a different course, or end it.

She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

Destiny isn't a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice

You cannot remove randomness from the universe. You can, however, use your 168 hours to stack the odds in your favor. To do this, you have to place many bets, and leave nothing you can control to chance. In other words, you have to be open to possibilities, and plan for opportunities.

There is a lot of randomness in the universe, but truly lucky people recognize that fairy godmothers are lazy. If taking your career to the next level will require your fairy godmother to tip her wand, make sure the wand is pointed at you, and that you're standing as close to her as possible, so all she has to do is nudge the thing like a bored barfly fiddling with a cocktail glass.

given chunk of waking hours. By defining this amount, we start to think of each day as containing a given quantity of temporal space. That time will be filled by something. I maintain that what we fill each day with is largely up to us, based on current

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

Work was all I did, and I realized that was upsetting." It was upsetting philosophically—there is more to life—but it also felt financially foolish. "I live in New York City. If all I was doing was working, I could do that from anywhere. I could do that from a shack in the middle of the desert," she says. "Why pay to live in one of the world's most expensive cities if I wasn't taking advantage of it?

Plan on Fridays Expectations are infinite. Time is finite. We are always choosing. Choose well.

This is all true, and yet not really an argument against ownership. It is easy to believe our own excuses, particularly if they're good ones, but in a world of 7 billion people, there is always someone facing Y who is doing X. All of us have to assess the plot of life we are allotted every twenty-four hours and figure out how we can make the most of what we've been given.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Money is completely fungible, and so every penny spent on one thing could be spent on something else. The question all of us need to ask ourselves is whether that something else might actually make us or our loved ones happier.

We all have 168 hours a week, but not all hours are equally suited to all things.

This was nothing but an opportunity—an offer by an agent to represent them, but with no guarantee it would work. Still, Shear and Toomey decided to give it their best shot. They knew they needed more material, and the focus to write. So they took off for the Hamptons to bartend for the summer at Star Room, a club. They'd work until 4:00 a.m. most nights, and then haul themselves to Starbucks in the morning. "We just wrote all summer long," Shear says.

My first big job was an Abercrombie &ampFitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer we knew we had made a mistake!