Opportunity Quotes - Page 21

• Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Teamwork, Sports, Women

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• Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.

  Stefan Zweig

  Reality, Views, Europe

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• Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Eye, Opposites

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• There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

  Major Taylor

  Moral, Granted, Accomplish

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• If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Risk

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.

  Edward Heath

  Privilege, Products

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

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• Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's own childhood problems in the context of one's relation to one's child.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Childhood, Parenthood

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• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  William Harvey

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.

  Roger Goodell

  Player, Reality, Games

  "Read Roger Goodell's Letter To NFL Fans" by Dashiell Bennett, www.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans.

  Roger Goodell

  Team, Player, Games

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• As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Player, Thinking

  "Clinton Portis: Crackdown on Hitting Could Make Game Less Exciting". Interview with Jason Reid, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Moving, Boston

  "Liberty Was Also Attacked In Boston". www.thedailysheeple.com. April 30, 2013.

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• It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Home, Heart

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• Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

  Marlin Fitzwater

  Lawyer, Blast, Ought

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

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• The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Freedom, Moving

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• The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

  James Lecesne

  Encouragement, People, Identity

  "Making It Better for Today’s LGBT and Questioning Youth" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2012.

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• As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Business, Use

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• The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

  Shelby Steele

  Land, Guarantees, Deliverance

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• We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Working Together, Distribution Of Wealth, Our Society

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

  John Wooden

  Long, Too Late, Arise

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• Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Art, Teenager, Air

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• During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  War, Swings, Giving

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• ... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Spiritual, Work, Educational

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