Quotes About Opportunity

Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

for those at the bottom of the ladder,

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

The only reward you can ask from writing is the chance to keep doing it.

Like a swimmer who throws himself into the water in order to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people to see him.

But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has knocked on all the doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one may enter and for which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years, and it opens.

Every cloud has a silver lining

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

It's only good sense to go looking for trouble, because then at least you have your eyes open; while if you stay still, trouble will sneak up on you and pot you like a sitting bird.

Really good anything takes timing.

So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.

At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter?

At the gates of time, blessing waits to usher toward us the grace we need.

To live like this is to experience time as a constant invitation to growth

We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.

In the letters between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya there is the beautiful recognition: "When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, its sound is often no louder than the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it.

This story must be told. We live in a time of terrible crisis—and tremendous opportunity. The story of this particular economic hit man is the story of how we got to where we are and why we currently face crises that seem insurmountable.

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

The Aboriginal opportunity today is the equivalent of the Quebec issue in the 1960s and 70s. As with the francophones of that era, so the Aboriginals today are ready for a struggle to right the wrongs. And a growing number of non-Aboriginal Canadians are with them.

Heroes happen because somebody made a mistake.

Part of being open to learning is taking risks!

any dairies or pig farms around there. We could

Ever notice how dumb luck seems to follow smart people around?