Quotes About Opportunities

discernment asks that we constantly be open, both to God's gentle nudges and to the many opportunities for grace that are constantly being presented.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Woe to those who prefer to spend their lives saying: "I never had any opportunities!" Because with each day that passes, they will sink deeper into the well of their own limitations

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

Las imágenes felices del pasado y las cosas que podrían haber sido y no fueron

The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).

Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape—all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

We'll see that the reason that Britain is richer than Egypt is because in 1688, Britain (or England, to be exact) had a revolution that transformed the politics and thus the economics of the nation. People fought for and won more political rights, and they used them to expand their economic opportunities. The result was a fundamentally different political and economic trajectory, culminating in the Industrial Revolution.

T]he presence of markets is not by itself a guarantee of inclusive institutions. . . . Markets, left to their own devices, can cease to be inclusive, becoming increasingly dominated by the economically and politically powerful. Inclusive economic institutions require not just markets, but inclusive markets that create a level playing field and economic opportunities for the majority of the people.

Las instituciones económicas inclusivas implican la existencia de derechos de propiedad seguros y oportunidades económicas no solamente para la élite, sino también para la mayor parte de la sociedad.

The institutional dynamics we have described ultimately determined which countries took advantage of the major opportunities present in the nineteenth century onward and which ones failed to do so. The roots of the world inequality we observe today can be found in this divergence. With a few exceptions, the rich countries of today are those that embarked on the process of industrialization and technological change starting in the nineteenth century, and the poor ones are those that did not.

Las instituciones económicas inclusivas exigen no solamente mercados, sino mercados inclusivos que creen unas reglas de juego más equitativas y oportunidades económicas para la mayoría de la gente. El monopolio generalizado, respaldado por el poder político de la élite, contradice esta posibilidad.

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.