Quotes About Opportunity

The myth that we must have "time"—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for "more," we are forever discounting what is offered.

Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.

For example, if you remembered the smell of fresh-baked bread, a visit to a bakery could be a wonderful Artist Date.) Never Too Late The joke runs like this: Question: Do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to play the piano? Answer: The same age you'll be if you don't. A year from now you will wish you had started today. —KAREN LAMB

Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL

The myth that we must have time - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for more, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Tírate y aparecerá la red».

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. OVID

Remember the maxim "Leap, and the net will appear.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.... Take a risk a day-one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. SUSAN JEFFERS

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a lot of work for them if they stick it out, they tell everyone how fabulous it is, they spend all their money - and then they come home. It seems to take from two to six years.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch." -Miss Endicott.

And good luck to you, Miss Vale, wherever you may go.

Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple from a tree.

What brings you to Eversea House, Moncrieffe? Very polite the question, but strain pitched it nearly an octave higher than Ian's usual voice. His nostrils had flared; white lines made dents on either side of them. Opportunity, Moncrieffe said simply. And smiled the sort of smile that wolves do, when they have their prey neatly cornered.

There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.

Olivia MacKenzie was certain she would have been offered the job if she hadn't punched the boss during the interview.

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.