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Quotes About Opportunity

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Ho capito che non si cambia veramente mai, non c'è modo di cambiare, come si è da piccoli si è tutta la vita, non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo, disse. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Don't talk about going travelling. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag and it just happens
~ Alex Garland
Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money
~ Alexander Elder
An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times.
~ Alexander Elder
People trade for many reasons—some rational and many irrational. Trading offers an opportunity to make a lot of money in a hurry. Money symbolizes freedom to many people, even though they often don't know what to do with it.
~ Alexander Elder
We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives -- the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend the rest of our days, the receiving of a piece of advice whic influences our choice of career, the spotting of a particular house for sale; all of these may be put down to pur chance, and yet they govern how our lives work out and how happy--or unhappy--we were going to be.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We've all had that sort of experience," said Mma Ramotswe. "Every one of us, Mma. We've all had a first day at school, or a first day in a new job. We've all been unsure what to do.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Africa will get nowhere until we have mechanics... Mechanics are the first stone in the building. Then there are other people on top. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. But the whole thing is built on mechanics. That is why it is important to teach young people to be mechanics.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
chairs are public, and one only needs to seek permission to sit in another's chair if the owner of the room is present; once you were by yourself, any chair was fair game. Except the chairs of really important people—one should not sit on a throne when left unattended in a monarch's throne room; that really was going too far. And yet who would miss such an opportunity? There could surely be little doubt but that visitors
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I have the luxury, I suppose, of being self-employed. But I know what it's like to apply for jobs.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He had only recently learned the word dramaturge and had been looking for opportunities to use it. He had eventually summoned up the courage to try it on Big Lou, but her espresso machine had hissed at a crucial moment and she had not heard him.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?" 81.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I can't, Tofu," said Bertie. "I can't join the cubs." Tofu was dismissive of Bertie's protestation. "You can't? Why? Is it because you think you'll fail the medical examination? There isn't one. That's the army you're thinking of. The cubs will take anyone – even somebody like you.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
S?radan, küçük bir kâtiptir, menzil bekçisi oldu mu diktatör kesilir. - Prens Viyazemski
~ Alexander Pushkin
Though a gamester at heart, he never touched a card, for he considered his position did not allow him—as he said— to risk the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous
~ Alexander Pushkin