Quotes About Opportunity

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

A whole community perpetually imploring us not to be immoderate and screw up, imploring us to grasp opportunity, exploit our advantages, remember what matters.

Sharpening the writer's sense of reality. Feeding that great opportunistic maw, a novelist's mind.

For scientists, not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover; the more that is unknown, the greater the opportunity.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

One never gets the same summer twice.

Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.

You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.

Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others...

then America still has the power to change, and to change quickly and for the better. And I hope it does, because a successful America, with a new-found

IF A MAN NEGLECTS EDUCATION, HE WALKS LAME TO THE END OF HIS LIFE

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Researchers have found that the more people focus on their odds of winning, the less likely they'll go for it. But the more they focus on what they'll win if they succeed, the more likely they'll go for it.

Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?