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Quotes About Opportunity

Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson
~ James Patterson
The actor Danny Kaye used to say, "Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it." I like that thought. More important, I try to live by it as much as I can. I
~ James Patterson
It doesn't matter what the end looks like- what matters is that it came. Bam, you're done. But life? There are degrees of life. You can live it well or half-asleep. You can go sledding down a sand dune, or you can spend your life in front of the TV. And i don't mean to sound like a stupid after-school special, but you have to keep living the way we did these last weeks. Risk. That's the secret. Risk everything
~ James Patterson
Big Sale. Last Week.' Last week? Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
~ James Patterson
pair of virtually new ASICS cross-trainers. It was remarkable what you could find in a Goodwill store these days.
~ James Patterson
But love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.
~ James Patterson
I am beautiful tonight, Coco thought. And it's a spectacular evening in my paradise, Palm Beach. Romance and opportunity lie just ahead. I can feel them coming to me already. Like my mother always told me, if a girl has fashion, romance, and a little opportunity in her life, nothing else really matters.
~ James Patterson
So what you have to ask yourself is: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" That's
~ James Patterson
Hey, I might've blown two classes. But you know what they say: The third time's the charm!
~ James Patterson
You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.
~ James Patterson
If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it
~ James Patterson
If you are lucky you will find something you love doing, if you're really lucky you'll find someone to pay you to do it
~ James Patterson
You only have a few times in your life to really cut loose, so you might as well take them when they come.
~ James Patterson
I really do hope myeline meant something in the end- that it meant all those things. I don't know what's next- what any of us can expect- but I do know I'm ready to see what's out there for me.
~ James Patterson
from the nearby New York City boroughs
~ James Patterson
If life gives you lemons, learn how to juggle.
~ James Patterson
would have done it. He had his chance in the alleyway.
~ James Patterson
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~ James Patterson
God gave us the acorns, but He doesn't crack them open for us." —Isaiah
~ James Patterson
Zig when the world expects you to zag
~ James Patterson
Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.
~ Huma Qureshi
I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
~ Laura Dern
We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
~ Irwin Shaw