Quotes About Opportunity

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.Truth was, it didn't matter.She had a new beginning.

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be."Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

It's a good day to do great things!

You can only rise so far by climbing on others' shoulders, you know.