Opportunity Quotes - Page 28

• What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Good Luck, Creating, Chance

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• Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Inspiration, Mind

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Creating

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• I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Children, Doubt, Safe

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• For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.

  Dov Seidman

  Confidence, Moving, Journey

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

  Mardy Grothe

  Anticipation, Wonderful, Best Things

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• If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Gone, Dues

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, United States, Wilderness

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• So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Happiness, Education, Men

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• If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Fighting, May, Determined

  "Rumsfeld: Uday, Qusay photos will be released", www.cnn.com. July 24, 2003.

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• To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

  Taylor Dane

  Years, Voice, People

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• Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Education, Children, Mean

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that we need to allow enough opportunity for handling and investigation of objects to further intellectual development and just enough restriction required for family harmony and for the safety of the child.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Safety, Intellectual

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations.  Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Attitude, Effort

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• The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

  Hermann Bondi

  Book, Giving, Innovation

  "Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory". Book by Hermann Bondi (p. v), 1967.

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• ... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

  Hermann Bondi

  Usual, Buzz, Bees

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• I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.

  Albert Belle

  Second Chance, Games, Play

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• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Meditation, Missing

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  Barack Obama

  Should Have, Ideas, America

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• Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Play, Trying, Different

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• But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as unable to define as to guide, the toiler is most heavily handicapped in the very start.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Race, Law, Wealth

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• The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.

  James Arthur Ray

  Adventure, Warrior, Space

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• When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Halfway There, Challenges, Roadblock

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• Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, World

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 19, 2015

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