Missing Opportunity Quotes

• Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

  Eric Roth

  Life, I Hate You, Emotional

  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Reality, Fda

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Missing You

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 04, 2014

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspiring, Failure, Fall

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• Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald

  Opportunity, Bird, Missed Opportunity

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• Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.

  Richard Wiseman

  Jobs, Party, Good Friend

  "Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn" by Richard Wiseman, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 9, 2003.

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• When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Missing, Encounters

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• There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

  Indra Nooyi

  Jobs, Eye, Opportunity

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• Life is short. Don't miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.

  Joel Osteen

  Life Is Short, Opportunity, People

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2013

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• Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

  Alan Colmes

  Book, Opportunity, Missing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

  Steve McConnell

  Opportunity, Missing, Use

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education

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• If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Missing You, Opportunity, Imagination

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• Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

  John C. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Missing, Might

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• If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Running, Sweet

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• Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Love, Hate, Opportunity

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• Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

  Henry Ford

  Opportunity, People, Missing

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• Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

  John Eliot

  Hurt, Believe, Opportunity

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