opportunity

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
6394972	The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.	chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity	John F. Kennedy
bffe041	Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.	acts-of-kindness happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile	Roy T. Bennett
89ebd2f	"No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on "Bright Eyes." 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures "David" and "Pieta" by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech "I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver's order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US	confidence discipline effort excuses failure faith isnpiration love motivation olympics opportunities opportunity president success	Pablo
a25cc38	How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.	life opportunity	Paulo Coelho
2eaed87	Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait	calm faith growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic patience positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
bbe64e4	Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational obstacle opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking possibility problem	Roy T. Bennett
29bc0ec	The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.	happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation millionaire-mindset mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation	Stephen Richards
d3f5c8c	It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.	intimacy marianne-dashwood openness opportunity self-disclosure time	Jane Austen
68c6d57	When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge -- every adversity -- contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.	adversity challenge growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
415cd23	Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.	authentic-living conviction enthusiasm inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes living-on-purpose motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic passion positive positive-affirmation	Roy T. Bennett
2c07ed8	When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.	inspirational opportunity	Alexander Graham Bell
20471d6	When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.	focus goal-setting happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation	Stephen Richards
4921d9d	Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.	inspirational learning motivational opportunity	Sarah Caldwell
a5277f2	Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-your-mind-open life life-quotes live-life-to-the-fullest living living-life-to-the-fullest meaning mind open-your-mind opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
9d20cf3	How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.	action change destiny empowerment history inspirational life motivational opportunity	Steve Maraboli
e203da9	Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.	creativity curiosity inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking possibility	Roy T. Bennett
41a93ce	"My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."	books jhumpa-lahiri opportunity the-namesake travel	Jhumpa Lahiri
456e8e6	The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.	innovation life-long-learning living-life open-mindedness opportunity	Steven Johnson
36df218	the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.	enemy opportunity strategy war	Sun Tzu
9e8869d	If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean--even if it did build muscle--whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period... the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.	conundrums desire groundhog-day life money old-age opportunity parents philosophy self-contradiction tiresias wishful-thinking women youth	Christopher Hitchens
f48a454	"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first."	brian-tracy difficult frog goal hard hardship life opportunity task	Brian Tracy
868d325	You have to believe in it to get it...	dream opportunity	Nora Roberts
329afbf	Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.	grow growing learning opportunity	Terry Tempest Williams
0b843b0	"Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time."	chance conceit human improve opportunity promise strive time	Robin Hobb
34e6e71	I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.	future hope new-life opportunity	Joan Didion
dfed5e5	Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.	opportunity	Roger Zelazny
fdae5ee	Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.	inspirational lessons-in-life life motivational opportunity	Andre Dubus III
f717c98	"Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor." Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources."	money offended opportunity poor potential worth	Kim Harrison
28fd847	earn what you can since everything's for sale	desperation opportunity profession vocation	Geoffrey Chaucer
e0fc8e4	The universe is full of doors.	opportunity	Frank Herbert
6e55f12	Sorry to tell you, but that's a very old chestnut. My mother used to say when God slams a door on you, he opens a window.' Tig gave this two seconds of respectful consideration before rejecting it. 'No, that's not the same. I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.' 'Without a roof over your head, it kind of feels like you might die.' 'Yeah, but you might not. For sure you won't find your way out of the mess if you keep picking up bricks and stuffing them in your pockets. What you have to do is look for blue sky.	climate-change end-of-the-world generation-gap god homeless opportunity optimism shelter unsheltered	Barbara Kingsolver
ba422b5	Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.	gaps opportunity schooling	Robert D. Putnam
23fef80	"He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the world was replete with endless possibilities. He'd thought it a mistake to choose so early in life and embrace the present good. He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time. ("Old Haunts")"	love opportunity	Richard Matheson
0120665	Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.	criminals direction juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice-system opportunity poverty single-parenting	Ta-Nehisi Coates
1598bbf	People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.	opportunity	Zora Neale Hurston
d5c6625	"One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year." Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months."	negotiation opportunity patience risk	Walter Isaacson
d8d97a6	Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.	opportunity	Joanna Gaines
d42d0f0	Do you mean Y2K? The Enron Scandal? In devastation there is opportunity, you know!	business-quotes devastation enron enron-scandal new-york new-york-stock-exchange opportunity y2k	Rebecca McNutt
0e82982	The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.	missions opportunity stewardship wealth	Randy Alcorn
268375f	Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.	creativity idea ideas implement make meet occur opportunity quality truth unique	Robin Hobb
a386af9	We all have neglected opportunities to deplore.	opportunity sherlock-holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
67edef5	Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown saying, she has rarely been known to knock	opportunity success	Chris Murray
cc05127	"You wanted greater things But love forces all of us down And sorrow bows us still harder. They bend us back where we began. Are there not in the hallowed night Also right things? Things that are straight and true? So I learned. For never, as mortal teachers do, Have you, my deities, Upholders of all things Led me with caution On level pathways. The gods say to humans, "Taste everything And learn by that nourishment To give thanks for all things And know what it is to be free to quit And go where you like."	joy life opportunity optimism spirituality	Friedrich Hölderlin
b3545ff	Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.	addiction addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous challenge change chris-prentiss opportunity reading writing	Chris Prentiss
1a3a117	Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.	opportunity	Barbara Ehrenreich
ee5d563	As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups - adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.	education opportunity poverty	Robert A. Caro

6394972

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

chinese crisis danger inspirational opportunity

John F. Kennedy

bffe041

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.

acts-of-kindness happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile

Roy T. Bennett

89ebd2f

"No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on "Bright Eyes." 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures "David" and "Pieta" by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech "I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver's order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US

confidence discipline effort excuses failure faith isnpiration love motivation olympics opportunities opportunity president success

Pablo

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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

life opportunity

Paulo Coelho

2eaed87

Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait

calm faith growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic patience positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking

Roy T. Bennett

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Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.

inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational obstacle opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking possibility problem

Roy T. Bennett

29bc0ec

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation millionaire-mindset mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation

Stephen Richards

d3f5c8c

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;--it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

intimacy marianne-dashwood openness opportunity self-disclosure time

Jane Austen

68c6d57

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge -- every adversity -- contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

adversity challenge growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking

Roy T. Bennett

415cd23

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

authentic-living conviction enthusiasm inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes living-on-purpose motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic passion positive positive-affirmation

Roy T. Bennett

2c07ed8

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

inspirational opportunity

Alexander Graham Bell

20471d6

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

focus goal-setting happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation

Stephen Richards

4921d9d

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

inspirational learning motivational opportunity

Sarah Caldwell

a5277f2

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-your-mind-open life life-quotes live-life-to-the-fullest living living-life-to-the-fullest meaning mind open-your-mind opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking

Roy T. Bennett

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How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

action change destiny empowerment history inspirational life motivational opportunity

Steve Maraboli

e203da9

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

creativity curiosity inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking possibility

Roy T. Bennett

41a93ce

"My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."

books jhumpa-lahiri opportunity the-namesake travel

Jhumpa Lahiri

456e8e6

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

innovation life-long-learning living-life open-mindedness opportunity

Steven Johnson

36df218

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

enemy opportunity strategy war

Sun Tzu

9e8869d

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean--even if it did build muscle--whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period... the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.

conundrums desire groundhog-day life money old-age opportunity parents philosophy self-contradiction tiresias wishful-thinking women youth

Christopher Hitchens

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"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first."

brian-tracy difficult frog goal hard hardship life opportunity task

Brian Tracy

868d325

You have to believe in it to get it...

dream opportunity

Nora Roberts

329afbf

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

grow growing learning opportunity

Terry Tempest Williams

0b843b0

"Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time."

chance conceit human improve opportunity promise strive time

Robin Hobb

34e6e71

I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.

future hope new-life opportunity

Joan Didion

dfed5e5

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

opportunity

Roger Zelazny

fdae5ee

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

inspirational lessons-in-life life motivational opportunity

Andre Dubus III

f717c98

"Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor." Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources."

money offended opportunity poor potential worth

Kim Harrison

28fd847

earn what you can since everything's for sale

desperation opportunity profession vocation

Geoffrey Chaucer

e0fc8e4

The universe is full of doors.

opportunity

Frank Herbert

6e55f12

Sorry to tell you, but that's a very old chestnut. My mother used to say when God slams a door on you, he opens a window.' Tig gave this two seconds of respectful consideration before rejecting it. 'No, that's not the same. I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.' 'Without a roof over your head, it kind of feels like you might die.' 'Yeah, but you might not. For sure you won't find your way out of the mess if you keep picking up bricks and stuffing them in your pockets. What you have to do is look for blue sky.

climate-change end-of-the-world generation-gap god homeless opportunity optimism shelter unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

ba422b5

Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

gaps opportunity schooling

Robert D. Putnam

23fef80

"He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless assurance of youth, that the world was replete with endless possibilities. He'd thought it a mistake to choose so early in life and embrace the present good. He'd been a great one for looking for greener pastures. He'd kept looking until all his pastures were brown with time. ("Old Haunts")"

love opportunity

Richard Matheson

0120665

Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.

criminals direction juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice-system opportunity poverty single-parenting

Ta-Nehisi Coates

1598bbf

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

opportunity

Zora Neale Hurston

d5c6625

"One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year." Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months."

negotiation opportunity patience risk

Walter Isaacson

d8d97a6

Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.

opportunity

Joanna Gaines

d42d0f0

Do you mean Y2K? The Enron Scandal? In devastation there is opportunity, you know!

business-quotes devastation enron enron-scandal new-york new-york-stock-exchange opportunity y2k

Rebecca McNutt

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The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.

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Randy Alcorn

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Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

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Robin Hobb

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We all have neglected opportunities to deplore.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown saying, she has rarely been known to knock

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Chris Murray

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"You wanted greater things But love forces all of us down And sorrow bows us still harder. They bend us back where we began. Are there not in the hallowed night Also right things? Things that are straight and true? So I learned. For never, as mortal teachers do, Have you, my deities, Upholders of all things Led me with caution On level pathways. The gods say to humans, "Taste everything And learn by that nourishment To give thanks for all things And know what it is to be free to quit And go where you like."

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Friedrich Hölderlin

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Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

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Chris Prentiss

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Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

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As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups - adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.

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Robert A. Caro