Quotes About Opportunity

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

What if I don't like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.

Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game

So much for 'Give us your tired and hungry, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

What if I don't like adventure?" I said. Ruth dragged over a kitchen chair and sat down facing me. "Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

These are the days that must happen to you

Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this verse: 'It might have been a great deal worse.

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my good will, Scattering it freely forever.

Az egyenlÅ'ségrÅ'l – mintha bizony káromra volna, ha másnak is megadják ugyanazokat a lehetÅ'ségeket és jogokat, mint nekem, mintha nem volna saját jogaim nélkülözhetetlen része, hogy másnak is ugyanolyan jogai legyenek.

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

That's what makes poor people poor...They're looking to find treasures instead of working and saving every day.

Everything you've ever done in your life is shit," Jobs said, "so why don't you come work for me?

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Sometimes innovation is a matter of timing. A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.

Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.

A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.

Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multiple places.

By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it