Quotes About Opportunity

Weird doors open. People fall into things.

The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.

the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.

She paused, and I took the opportunity to practice the only promotional skill at my disposal: fluttering my fingers over the telephone's mouthpiece, I attempted to cast a spell, silently chanting, It's me who you want. Me, me, me.

When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

The position was offered at the last minute, when the scheduled professor found a better-paying job delivering pizza.

or the class moron will go on to become the president of the United States—though that's more likely to happen at Harvard or Yale, schools that will pretty much let in anybody.

My argument was an old and stodgy one: the best thing you can do for the poor is avoid joining their ranks, thus competing with them for limited goods and services.

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

What if America isn't really the sort of place where a street urchin can charm his way to the top through diligence and talent? What if instead it's the sort of place where heartwarming stories about abused children who triumphed through adversity are made up and marketed?

Para hacer buenos negocios solo hay que tener buen ojo, dinero y falta de fe en la inteligencia humana.

This, she realized suddenly, was probably the best squadron command she would ever have—unless

People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their "betters" in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had mattered, they'd have been the ones making the decisions, right? The fact that they weren't was directly attributable to their inherent inferiority and general stupidity, not the inequality of opportunity.

Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to not repeat the same mistakes. We have the opportunity to use our technology responsibly and to steward the earth rather than steer it into its own destruction.

I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [...]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

Only a matter of timing.

I think that is what a national park is all about. It gives people breathing room. It gives people a tranquil atmosphere. It gives them an opportunity to be a part of nature, You're just part of it all. - Juanita Green

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. —Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Carpe Deim, Carpe Noctem.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

people move in the hope of a better life