Quotes About Opportunity

When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

Oh, Maureen. Don't be so naive. Everybody knows what it's like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It's all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks.

There is so much for you to do," she said. "So many places." "How do you know?" I said. "I can feel it," she said.

What are you angry about (a betrayal, a coworker's hurtful comment, a car breakdown, unanswered prayer, etc.)? What are you sad about (a small or big loss, disappointment, or a choice you or others have made)? What are you anxious about (your finances, future, family, health, church)? What are you glad about (your family, an opportunity, your church)?

tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

Creativity becomes a way of life. This then is the opportunity and invitation: little bets provide a powerful vehicle to approach life and work in a new way.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it." After all, life is a creative process.

There are several major improvisation principles. One is that you should "accept every offer.

Just as Wiseman's research demonstrates that we can make our own luck, including by lowering our rigid expectations and being open to new ones, Tim Russert made his own luck.

Mountain biking was an enormous idea and market waiting to be discovered. Anyone learning from those early adopters would have seen it coming.

Talvez, por menos oportuno que possa parecer, se devesse dizer mais uma vez: no mundo que sucedeu à graça, a arte foi o asilo das exceções que restaram.

Fear is the possibility of freedom.

now. The burden of it was that if you try to follow now, and be lucky enough

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.