Quotes About Opportunity

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

You have greater access to sanitation and clean water than ever before. To privacy, leisure, and artificial light. To transportation, communication, and computation. The list goes on and on.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn't want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The

it's true," said the major, "you could have your cake and eat it to.

Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision was simple. You get thirty dollars or you get nothing. With this logic you would take any positive amount.

After the war, we should think about going into the shrimping business together.

Men choose high-paying fields like engineering, chemistry, and mining more often than women do. Women choose lower-paying fields like education and social work more often than men do. This accounts for most of the difference.

Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

I'm guessing if we had just waited an hour or so we would have been there when Dad first broke in.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.

At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.

A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais

Fate is bound up in the music of chance.

How soon "not now" becomes "never".

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

As it is in politics, so it is in private and public companies. Fast-tracked diversity may promote the people who were nearest to their destination already. And very often these are the most privileged people of any group – including their own.

McIntosh urges people to 'raise our daily consciousness' on the nature of privilege and attempt to use 'our arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems on a broader basis'. This suggests that McIntosh is not against power, just in favour of some redistribution of it along different lines.