Quotes About Opportunity

Stava anche scoprendo che un libro tira l'altro; ovunque si voltava si aprivano nuove porte e le giornate erano troppo corte per leggere quanto avrebbe voluto. Ma era dispiaciuta, e anche mortificata, al pensiero di tutte le occasioni che si era lasciata sfuggire.

The Key to a healthy no is to remember the yes that the no is making space for.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

when the student is ready, the teacher appears

Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.

Life is not a task. It's a privilege.

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.

our history is not our destiny. At any moment we are free to make new choices and create a new destiny.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.

There's a French saying, 'Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.' Let's see, 'Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower'...

He who earnestly and persistently seeks, shall find! To him who knocks hard, the door will be opened.

Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, Sorry, dude, you're screwed. acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.

This remarkable story is all too typical of how so many Jewish leaders throughout our history have reasoned about Jewish survival. Without tsuris--troubles--we will cease to be Jewish. We need to be persecuted, impoverished, discriminated against, hated, and victimized in order for us to retain our Jewishness. The chosen people must be denied choices if Judaism is to survive. If Jews are given freedom, opportunity, and choice, they will choose to assimilate and disappear.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

If things were no longer going on the way they should be, didn't that mean anything could happen?

All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is work in Johannesburg. If there are taxes to be paid, there is work in Johannesburg. If the farm is too small to be divided further, some must go to Johannesburg. If there is a child to be born that must be delivered in secret, it can be delivered in Johannesburg.

You're only young once, Valkyrie." "Yeah, but it goes on for ages.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.

Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in mainly white schools. They faired poorly or dropped out of school. Truly, these were the real victims of the great school desegregation campaign.

time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of the problem appeared to be the substantial disparities in the resources provided to black students relative to white students. Many, including myself, decided that given the difficulty of integrating black and Latino students with their swiftly fleeing white counterparts, we should concentrate on desegregating the money.