Quotes About Opportunity

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

If you don't seize the moment, the moment will never seize you.

Le seul risque est de ne pas en prendre

FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS.

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

luck is not a thing that happens to you. Luck is everything that happens to you. The good, the bad, the in-between. And luck is what you make happen. Luck is how you see the events of your life and how you respond to them" -Aunt Jenny

Funny how unlucky events can lead to lucky ones -Emma

This was exactly what I was starting to notice: how everything was related, how the bad things that happened sometimes led to good things later" -Emma

Luck, I was starting to realize, comes in many flavors." -Emma

I'd been thinking of luck as 'things I wanted to happen', but luck was also 'preventing things I didn't want to happen'" - Emma

In life, he who risks nothing, gains nothing.' Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as it were.

You got to get it while you can

Joe's scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Calamities are only calamities if you define them as such; in reality there are only events and all events can be useful.

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day

Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.

All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.

Blacks now demand special treatment as a matter of course. In its befuddled way, society is trying to do what is right. But to favor blacks systematically and then call this sorry charade "equal opportunity" is self-delusion of the worst kind.

They must listen to the words of Booker T. Washington, the former slave who went on to found Tuskeegee Institute: No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced regardless of his own merit or efforts.1337

Non-whites promote diversity because they profit from it. It increases their opportunities at the expense of whites.

Many blacks must know that newly arrived Asians are a powerful threat to the theory of white racism. When these nonwhites with little education, who hardly speak English, get ahead through determination and hard work, it undercuts blacks' excuses. Asian successes are galling for another reason. Asians never had black slaves, never supported the KKK or joined lynch mobs. It is hard to persuade Korean grocers to go along with special treatment for blacks in the name of historical redress.

An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David Sikkink of Rice University found that the more education white parents had, the more likely they were to rule out schools for their children simply because of the number of blacks.