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Quotes About Opportunities

Many of these businesspeople are successful because the crises they resolve and the opportunities they take advantage of are bigger than the problems they allow and create in their own offices, homes, and briefcases.
~ David Allen
The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and be vanished in the bliss of the giving.
~ David Deida
Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.
~ David Eddings
Emphasizing inefficiently priced asset classes with interesting active management opportunities increases the odds of investment success. Intelligent acceptance of illiquidity and a value orientation constitute a sensible, conservative approach to portfolio management.
~ David F. Swensen
By operating in the institutional mainstream of short-horizon, uncontroversial opportunities, committee members and staff ensure unspectacular results, while missing potentially rewarding longer term contrarian plays.
~ David F. Swensen
Three themes surface repeatedly in the book. The first theme centers on the importance of taking actions within the context of an analytically rigorous framework, implemented with discipline and under-girded with thorough analysis of specific opportunities.
~ David F. Swensen
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Kairos was young and wing-footed and forever gorgeous, despite having no hair except a single shock over his forehead. Kairos is the god of golden opportunities and guardian of outlaws, and he could work wonders for you if you were quick enough to grab him by the forelock.
~ Christopher McDougall
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
~ Chuck Hagel
Lo besaba porque sabía que las oportunidades eran escasas para que tuviera muchos besos como este en su vida.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until I honestly acknowledge how this regret feels, acknowledge that I'm not okay with how some of my life went, it's like having a fake past, and a fake present, which is surely a prescription for a fake future.
~ Claire Fontaine
Enseguida recuperó el control y llegó a la conclusión de que nunca se volvía a lo que había pasado; a cada uno se le daban días y oportunidades que no volvían a tenerse. ¿No era acaso agradable estar donde estabas y dejar que, por una vez, eso te recordara el pasado, a pesar del malestar, en lugar de estar siempre pendiente de la mecánica de los días y los problemas futuros, que tal vez nunca llegasen?
~ Unknown
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
~ Clarence Birdseye
In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
~ Clifford Geertz
One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of lives but end in the end having lived only one.
~ Clifford Geertz
The balance of life is like a pendulum of rights and opportunities.
~ Unknown
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
~ Clive Owen
The Call to Action believes 'that environmental issues represent one of the greatest opportunities to demonstrate the love of Christ and plant churches among unreached and unengaged people groups in our generation'.
~ Unknown
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
~ Herbie Hancock
Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.
~ Holly Black
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
~ Holly Black
Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.
~ Li Cunxin