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Quotes About Opportunity

What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.
~ Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.
~ Anthony Liccione
it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails, " suggested
~ Neal Shusterman, Everlost
We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.
~ Susan Glaspell
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.
~ Neil Gershenfeld
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
~ Herbert Simon
My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.
~ Blake Lively
Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.
~ Alexander Isley
When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.
~ Laurence Graff
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
~ Winston Churchill
I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
~ Michael Graves
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
~ Bruce Lee
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
~ Jay McInerney
Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.
~ Zan Perrion
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
~ Hattie McDaniel
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
~ D. H. Lawrence
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
~ Stephen Covey
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
~ Unknown
We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.
~ Thomas S. Monson
I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter