Quotes About Opportunity

Hidden in every limitation lies an opportunity. And for every obstacle you face, there is a simple and perfect solution, creatively. And your work is to find it. Where it gets tough is you need to fucking find it in five minutes.

America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity.

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

Problems are opportunities.

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

There is a definite time, a definite term, for everything. Possibilities for everything exist only for a definite time. Gurdjieff

Life is generous; at every instant it gives us a new beginning. Every second we are confronted by the question: "Who am I?" We do not ask it, and this is why we do not find the beginning

meat didn't come from the actual meat around the diaphragm of hens. As long as guests had the opportunity to see a waiter bring a sizzling platter of something to their table and warn them that the platter was hot, that was a fajita.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so.

I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

These two, the memories of last autumn, could be addressed later—if she chose. Right now, she had a task, and she could very much use whatever payment they ended up offering.

He had a vivid sense of roads forking, rivers branching, one of those moments where the life that follows cannot be as it might otherwise have been.

Here the world is all the world may be

Change and chance are the way of the world.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

If the other guy's happy, then there's still money left on the table.' " A

Why should people with particular skills – always accepting they are skills – live a vastly better economic life than others who have different skills?

That was something else I'd learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.

The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

grown up poor in the midst of Southern California affluence, graduated from Stanford Law School, and held a series of jobs, including corporate lawyer, developer of vast Southern California orange groves, and deputy chair of