Quotes About Opportunities

We experience a powerful reluctance to narrow our options—so powerful that we often miss out on good opportunities in order to avoid losing the remote possibility of something better.

And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.

The goal is not to make professions like nursing, social work, mental health, or teaching seem like masculine rather than feminine ones, but to emphasize a range of opportunities that they can provide for both men and women. We don't need to make men feel like being a nurse will somehow bolster their masculinity, just that it will not diminish it.

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

las facultades de Derecho parecen ofrecer un número muy superior de plazas a las oportunidades de trabajo en el ámbito del Derecho. Y existe, adicionalmente, una inquietud creciente sobre el desproporcionado coste de la defensa procesal ante los tribunales.

Maybe we're not doing it, but believe me, Sage, there are plenty of other ways to pass the time.

Great opportunities disguise themselves as small tasks.

small initial investments to explore opportunities, following up later with more substantial investments as the opportunity warrants. They are also willing to abandon a particular initiative if it doesn't appear to be developing effectively. Overall, the firms tended to move earlier than competitors into spaces that appeared attractive

What happened? A long track record of relatively stable success caused the ambition to hungrily search for new opportunities to atrophy.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great incidents

Whoever you are and whatever work you do, no one has ever lived your life with your particular challenges and possibilities.

Every day is filled with opportunities to be amazed, surprised, enthralled—to experience the enchanting everyday. To stay eager. To be, in a word, alive.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

From the perspective of reincarnation, an individual's growth is predicated primarily upon how well he or she deals with the opportunities and circumstances that present themselves in daily life.

You have; and I've restrained a good many of them," replied the insect. "But there are opportunities for so many excellent puns in our language that, to an educated person like myself, the temptation to express them is almost irresistible.

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

Radical Islam poses no serious threat to the liberal package, because for all their fervour the zealots don't really understand the world of the twenty-first century, and have nothing relevant to say about the novel dangers and opportunities that new technologies are generating all around us.

The prevailing feeling is that too many opportunities are opening too quickly and that our ability to modify genes is outpacing our capacity for making wise and farsighted use of the skill.

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—

In previous eras national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes. Now we need a new global identity because national institutions are incapable of handling a set of unprecedented global predicaments. We now have a global ecology, a global economy, and a global science—but we are still stuck with only national politics.

so humankind in the twenty-first century needs to ask itself an unprecedented question: what are we going to do with ourselves? In a healthy, prosperous and harmonious world, what will demand our attention and ingenuity? This question becomes doubly urgent given the immense new powers that biotechnology and information technology are providing us with. What will we do with all that power?