Quotes About Opportunity

Because America is not a democracy, it's not a place of opportunity, he knows, if you can't choose to be white.

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Many people strategize themselves into the wrong businesses.

An environment of fast growth can cover a multitude of sins, but an era of slow growth will magnify every shortcoming of every person in the business, especially the leaders.

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.

You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.

Without realizing it, he had been wasting time—years and years of time, time that would never be his again. He had failed to take advantage of the diversity of opportunity that had been, all along, available to him.

Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them.

He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.

If you wait, all that happens is you get older.

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

One little shot during a card game in Arkansas had started things happening—things he couldn't see the end of.

She may know what I am, though, Lorena said. Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

The luck of Teela Brown.

The target is everywhere.

Un año desperdiciado es un año perdido para siempre que nunca se recupera.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to help inspire the next generation

Every ending is an opportunity for something better.

maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if we lose him too early--in the name of all the promises in the world: a new job, a new city, an old love offering us happily ever after--we may just lose that chance to be our best self.

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.