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Quotes About Opportunities

A week is a long time in politics.
~ Harold Wilson
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
~ Brian Tracy
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
~ Wayne Rooney
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
~ A. A. Milne
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
~ Donald Knuth
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.
~ Susan Wojcicki
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
~ Oscar Wilde
You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.
~ Georgie Henley
I always say 'Don't make plans, make options'.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Life is frightening, Claudine corrected her. And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.
~ Anne Perry
Some academic pursuit had been a suggestion; she found study absorbing, but the tutorial positions open to women were few, and the restrictions of the life did not appeal to her. She read for pleasure.
~ Anne Perry
St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœGod triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.
~ Anne Rice
We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?
~ Anne Rice
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
~ Annie Dillard
So here we are. We live in a world where we have the
~ Seth Godin
Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread. Marketers offer solutions, opportunities for humans to solve their problems and move forward.
~ Seth Godin
When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow. This itself is an act of love.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic.
~ Sharon Salzberg
When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.
~ Shashi Tharoor
These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.
~ Sheri Dew
Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.
~ Deepak Chopra
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.
~ Edward Hallowell