Quotes About Opportunity

grasping at Option A as the single right answer, true strategy is positioning yourself to be able to do A, B, or C depending

Nuestra época puede enfatizar la igualdad, que luego confundimos con la necesidad de que todos seamos idénticos, pero su verdadero significado es la igualdad de oportunidades para expresar nuestras diferencias

Everyone has a thumbscrew, a gap in the castle wall. Once found, it is a thumbscrew you can turn to your advantage.

Do not waste precious time trying to steal a sheep or two ...

Weakness is no sin, and can even become a strength if you learn how to play it right.

Our ancestors' survival depended on the intensity of their attention. The longer and harder they looked, the more they could distinguish between an opportunity and a danger.

You can never be sure who you are dealing with. A man who is of little importance and means today can be a person of power tomorrow. We forget a lot in our lives, but we rarely forget an insult.

patience ... the principal requirement in the art of timing.

Power depends on the ability to fill a void ...

circumstances never repeat themselves exactly.

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timing, the contributions of others

So I went down to their office and I said, "Well, I'll write a column for you." So the first year I didn't get paid anything, but I wrote a little column every month

So even when luck has only a minor influence on performance, the most talented and hardworking of all contestants will usually be outdone by a rival who is almost as talented and hardworking but also considerably luckier.

And the great thing about money is that it doesn't matter when you harvest it. It's an all-year crop.

But if you seek power," he said, almost to himself, "and if you are a new man, this is what you have to do. Nobody is ever going to simply hand it to you.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

something they call the american dream sure we still believe in it i guess an earth man in the tavern said irregardless of the some times night mare facts we always try to double talk our way around and its okay the dreams okay and means whats good could be a damn sight better means every body in the good old u s a should have the chance to get ahead or at least should have three squares a day as for myself i do okay

Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!

TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) by Robert Heinlein from his book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad.

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.