Quotes About Opportunity

Ke Cheng-li doesn't like working-class kids. He only likes rich kids. He made Jiang Ji-li the teacher's assistant for math class and gave her higher grades, and he also let her win all the math contests and awarded her a lot of notebooks. We have to ask the question, What is the relationship between them after all?

I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?

Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.

You can't start over. There's no such thing as starting over. There's only history. And right now you're making tomorrow's history. So go out, and do something that will be fun to remember.

No one is watching, but you have to leap.

They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant, wiser; and all better, and happier together. We made the experiment; and the fruit is before us. —Abraham Lincoln, "Fragments on Government," 1854

There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it.

Motherhood is a fleeting season in our life, maximize every moment.

The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These rooms looked like all I did not have, every room a challenge, rather than an opportunity.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.

Your fear of failure should never be greater than your fear of regret.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

There is no right choice. You chose. Your job now is to make the most of that choice.

Be ready to walk away. Remember, you only want this deal, you do not need this deal.

My purpose here isn't to elevate your success regardless, but simply to provide you with the opportunity to do so.

Embrace "no" at every opportunity in a negotiation. Don't fear the word, invite it. You do not take it as a personal rejection because you are not needy. You understand that every "no" is reversible.

Life doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.

remember, we are not sending them there to punish them; we are merely giving them the opportunity to pull themselves together.