Quotes About Opportunity

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

This is when I learned that mistakes are interesting and began planning a life that contained several of them.

He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready, because he knew that another opportunity might never arise. Not

When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are

Foundation regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the work.

Temporal landmarks slow our thinking, allowing us to deliberate at a higher level and make better decisions

If you're an educator, know that all times are not created equal:

At the heart of all boldness regrets is the thwarted possibility of growth.

The lesson is plain: Speak up. Ask him out. Take that trip. Start that business. Step off the train.

Taking a Sagmeister," as I now call it, requires a fair bit of planning and saving, of course. But doesn't forgoing that big-screen TV seem a small price to pay for an unforgettable—and un-get-backable—year of personal exploration?

Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.

Indeed, one of design's most potent economic effects is this very capacity to create new markets—whether for ring tones, cutensils, photovoltaic cells, or medical devices.

next time you're selling yourself, don't fixate only on what you achieved yesterday. Also emphasize the promise of what you could accomplish tomorrow. - 141

Hay personas que prefieren decir "Sí", y hay otras que prefieren decir "No" —escribe Keith Johnstone—. Las que dicen "Sí" obtienen la recompensa de las aventuras que viven. Las que dicen "No" tienen su recompensa en la seguridad que obtienen.»

One of the most robust findings, in the academic research and my own, is that over time we are much more likely to regret the chances we didn't take than the chances we did.

Todo es comenzar á ser venturoso. (To be lucky at the beginning is everything.) —MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote

We simply don't take issues of when as seriously as we take questions of what.

Author and University of Houston professor Brené Brown offers a wonderful definition of "midlife." She says it's the period "when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you 'I'm not f—ing around, use the gifts you were given.

A life of obligation and no opportunity is crimped. A life of opportunity and no obligation is hollow. A life that fuses opportunity and obligation is true.

Boldness regrets sound like this: If only I'd taken the risk.

I could instead launch an Expedia-for-the-regretful site, which would include special travel packages for the legions of college graduates in the surveys who regretted not studying abroad.