Quotes About Opportunity

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.

The last free place in America is a parking spot.

And there is hope on the road. It's a by-product of forward momentum. A sense of opportunity, as wide as the country itself. A bone-deep conviction that something better will come.

The top 1 percent now makes eighty-one times what those in the bottom half do, when you compare average earnings. For American adults on the lower half of the income ladder—some 117 million of them—earnings haven't changed since the 1970s.

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit

And there is hope on the road. It's a by-product of forward momentum. A sense of opportunity, as wide as the country itself.

am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops," reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.

deepening class divide makes social mobility all but impossible. The result is a de facto caste system. This is not only morally wrong but also tremendously wasteful. Denying access to opportunity for large segments of the population means throwing away vast reserves of talent and brainpower. It's also been shown to dampen economic growth.

Today the United States has the most unequal society of all developed nations.

would have no chance to leave a better one.

One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.

you've got to be investing today in what your future's going to be 5 or 10 years out.

It's better to be young because you can spend a lot more nights, very, very late. Because you have to get things done, and there's almost no other way to get around that. When the times come, they are critical.

How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

There's no such thing as coincidence ... only convenience.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

One is never too young. Only always too old.

Wenn der Mensch sich selbst quälen kann, versäumt er so leicht keine Gelegenheit dazu.

Some fo too late and some go too early. [...] Go at the right time - thus spake Zarathustra.

We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. It cannot be otherwise, that is how we hearten ourselves

Tinere?ea trebuie s?-?i tr?iasc? prim?vara vie?ii.