Quotes About Opportunity

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought.

the one-eyed man is king,

It was messy. Unruly. Risky. Scary. So much could go wrong. Failure was always close at hand. But so was brilliance.

There was grace in second chances and foolishness in third.

Le beau risque. The great risk. The beautiful risk. To climb out of the hole and start again.

By offering a second chance. One last chance. Don't get me wrong, I believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

he should fear never beginning to live.

the new notebooks. Always strangely thrilling. Unmarred. No mistakes yet. All they held was promise and potential.

There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

So, in conclusion, that is the moral of Heidi. 'Always push invalid chairs off the top of mountains when you get the opportunity.' The end. Excellent advice.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - nor do you have an understudy.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

It is not unusual to make a single work the opportunity for passing definitive judgment upon an author. This is not our view of the duty of a critic. He is limited to the book before him, and all departures from it are impertinences.

The future belongs to the educated.

happy endings start with new beginnings.

A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

We have no idea what lies ahead or how God will open doors of potentiality when we consciously choose to get out of the ruts we're in and start moving down new paths about which we can be excited--even passionate.

But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

The great opportunity offered by ICTs comes with a huge intellectual responsibility to understand them and take advantage of them in the right way.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick- these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.