Quotes About Opportunity

So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well well spend it together.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

The good ones go if you wait too long.

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one.

Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, itd be nice if you just take it.

As far as recession goes I know its a difficult time out here for people, but me, myself, I honestly have to say Ive been put in a blessed position.

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I see so much of their legitimate work left undone.... I could name many things they could do," she continued in a revealing concession to prevailing anxieties about respectability, "without ever going into a ward."47

Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.

Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt; to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind; and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

The pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land

Commenting on an early paper by the Nobel laureate Gary Becker, the economist James Duesenberry famously quipped that "economics is all about choice, while sociology is about why people have no choices.

Finally, even random differences in opportunities that arise early in one's career can accumulate, via the Matthew Effect, to generate large differences in outcomes over the course of a lifetime. Rawls's claim was that because the mechanisms of inequality are essentially accidents—whether of birth, or of talent, or of opportunity—a just society is one in which the adverse effects of these accidents is minimized.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.