Quotes About Opportunity

The time has to be right and the heart willing.

Don't waste your time on life.

There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

Expected surprises.

Believing that the world is fair, people fail to note the various land mines in the environment that can undermine their careers.

Well, the more women—this is something that Justice O'Connor often said, that women of our age should get out there and make a good show, and that will encourage other women, and the more women that are out there doing things, the better off all of us will be.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

I want to reframe the midlife crisis, making it into the midlife opportunity.

Because so often when we say we're unqualified for something, what we're really saying is that we're too scared to try it, not that we can't do it.

Ellen Louise, you've done the sensible thing all your life. Now's the time to follow your heart. What if I do that and he still turns me down? What if you don't and you never know?

You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, 'You've got lemons? Let's make lemonade.

At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.

Timing is a wonderful thing sometimes. It can save us from ourselves.

It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful young women with so much promise and talent wind

Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.

Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.

After a few hours they stopped to have soup, but Wanda kept going alone, eager for the window of opportunity to be the first woman on the summit.

As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

When your mom and I were your age, there weren't a lot of options for girls. Like, you know how your mother's always telling you that you can be anything you want to be when you grow up? That wasn't what we heard. Men could be doctors or lawyers. We were just supposed to marry them.

Why would you want to spend your money to go to countries where the people are so poor that they'd do anything to come over here?

This is a door. You can close it and stay here, outside, by yourself, or you can walk through it and join them

assuming that their hard work, not their privilege, was what ensured them their good jobs, good schools, nice houses, and pricy vacations. Born on third base and think they hit a triple