Quotes About Opportunity

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

He has reached the apex of success, and it seems that there is no door he can't open.

Unknown to Oldfield, the best opportunity yet to arrest the Yorkshire Ripper was about to unfold, but it happened at the very time when the investigation was at its most dangerous, depressing and muddled phase, with carelessness piled upon misfortune piled upon incompetence.

People should not think of retiring as the last phase of their lives. They should think of it as a time to rewire themselves for new adventures that they are passionate about. Quote from Long Island University Magazine Winter 2016

Most people wont have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone whos now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Anything that liberates is not without risk.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried," Puck

YOLO You only live once it is a very powerful and misleading quote but very good

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

There is no perfection but in chance

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.

If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.

Marija, if we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.

YOU'VE GOT BIG IDEAS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUR CAREER, and you've done well ... so far. But are you ready for your next move? Because your path to the top will be built step-by-step through a series of major career moves. And each time you make a change, you have the opportunity to shine or to stumble. Shine and you will be positioned for still greater things. Stumble and you may never recover.

If you have inherited a disaster—the classic burning platform—you may be creating value from the moment your appointment is announced.

Gould was promoted to lead

also marks the beginning of a new journey in which you must figure out what it takes to excel in the new role, how to exceed the expectations of those who promoted you, and how to position yourself for still-greater things. That's the promotion challenge.