Quotes About Seizing

It was a repetition of the familiar Communist pattern of seizing upon some incident, justifiably or otherwise, and embroidering thereon without regard to truth and accuracy to form the basis for an almost hysterical campaign of vituperation," Marshall concluded wearily.

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

The best things happen to those who don't wait.

seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

Opportunities will come, you've just got to be ready to take advantage of it, be ready when the opportunity comes.

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

You just have to know how to put in the work, know how to be patient, how to take advantage of every opportunity that you get.

People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.

There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.

Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes, and trying any old thing, including the engineer's solution, which is to hit things with a hammer.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

They could test the constitutionality of seizing guns by starting with taking them from the cops, ICE, Border Patrol and the FBI. We know that would save more than a thousand lives a year.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Whatever the defense gives us, we're going to take it.

We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.

DECISIVENESS The world is moving faster and faster. Stock market trades are made in milliseconds. Deals come and go on the Internet in a matter of minutes. More and more people are competing for good deals. So the faster you can make a decision the more likely you'll be able to seize opportunities—before someone else does.

Opportunities come and go. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

When you're young and a teenager, there's an air of excitement about living with a time when you have to grasp life as much as you can because it may be taken from you.

It is, in my opinion, the opportunity of a lifetime, one of those opportunities, the seizing or failing to seize, which marks the difference between success and failure in life."84