Quotes about opportunity
opportunity presence-of-mind given
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. Malcolm Gladwell
opportunity equality ideas
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity. Mahatma Gandhi
opportunity growth needs
If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it. John C. Maxwell
opportunity growth progress
I have found progress, personal growth, and new and exciting opportunities in my failure. I've grown more comfortable with the fact that in certain circumstances, I'm the person in the room who knows the least about what's going on.
opportunity giving people
Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.
opportunity problem disguise
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise. John Adams
opportunity offering knowing
In the '90s, we are all our own gurus, offering truth to each other. My message is that we all have a truth inside of us that we must tell. The synchronicity of life is all about becoming clear, knowing what that truth is, watching and taking advantage of the opportunity to express that truth, and knowing how to present it. James Redfield
opportunity looks down-and
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time...
opportunity thinking climate
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. James Hansen
opportunity giving people
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace. James F. Byrnes
opportunity creative waiting
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do. Laura Hillenbrand
opportunity role-models roles
I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be. Kyan Douglas
opportunity two luxury
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness. Friedrich August von Hayek
opportunity liberty doing-good
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
opportunity government average
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. Franklin D. Roosevelt
opportunity equality individual
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
opportunity order choices
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity. George Gilder
opportunity pay serving-god
Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay. George Foreman
opportunity doors may
You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
opportunity understanding special
It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens. Jon Kyl
opportunity dust hands
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand. Jon Krakauer
opportunity people challenges
Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities. John Zorn
opportunity evil design
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design. Luc de Clapiers
opportunity accomplishment achievement
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
opportunity mind luck
Luck favors the mind that is prepared. Louis Pasteur
opportunity ideas giving
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it. John Brunner
opportunity two maine
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. John Baldacci
opportunity teach humans
All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. M. Scott Peck
opportunity black way
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way. Lupita Nyong'o
opportunity thinking who-i-am
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. Luis Guzman
opportunity positions presented roberts
All we can do is assume, because when presented with the opportunity to disavow the positions in his memos, Roberts refused, Evan Bayh
opportunity wonderful
This has been just a wonderful opportunity not just for our community, but for our students.
opportunity regular
This is a lot of fun. It's an opportunity for us to do things that we don't get to do in the regular classroom.