Opportunity Quotes - Page 24

• The people who excel in any field are people who realize that the moment is there to be seized-that there are opportunities at every turn. They are more alive to the moment.

  Charles Faulkner

  People, Alive, Fields

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• Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

  Anant Agarwal

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

  Lester Wunderman

  Marketing, Trying, Disaster

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• The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

  Anuj

  Technology, Employment, Green

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• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Agribusiness, Fields, Joints

  "The Regional Economics of Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Great tech opportunities happen only once.

  Peter Thiel

  Happens

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• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  Victor Ponta

  Children, Giving, Life Is

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• I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

  Carlos Slim

  Latin, America, Mexico

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• Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Promise, Matter

  "Michelle Obama in London to promote global education drive for girls". www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Money, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Solitude, Done, May

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.97

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• If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Truth, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Criticism, Needs

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

  Mason Cooley

  Luck, Gone, Begging

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• A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

  Mason Cooley

  Needs, Lasts, Please

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• I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Storytelling, Commerce, Visuals

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• If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

  Joel Osteen

  Favors, Promotion, Where You Are

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• Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
  struck out Marty Barrett
  to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

  Gary Carter

  Running, Games, Accomplishment

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• Action and adaptability create opportunity.

  Garrison Wynn

  Action, Adaptability

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• You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

  Susan Egan

  Knows

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• Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.

  Adnan

  Fall, Years, Rose

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• I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Willingness

  "Conversation With Theaster Gates: On Finding the Sweetest Fodder for His Imagination". Interview with Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Skills, America

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• Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Passion, School, Successful

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• If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Giving, Satisfaction

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