Opportunity Quotes - Page 35

• Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, History, Stuff

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Order

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.

  Betty White

  People, Giving, Interesting

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• Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Class, People

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Feet, Missing

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

  Anne Lamott

  Silence, Needs, Silence Love

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Keys, Goal

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• You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Doors, Ends

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Games, Preparation

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Missing, Littles

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Greatness, Maintaining The Status Quo

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• Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

  William James

  Emotional, May, Gains

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

  William James

  Lying, Thinking, Waiting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Dad, Father

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Numbers, People, Age

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred, into the One formless, unmanifested Life. This is why death is such an incredible opportunity. There is no transformation of human consciousness without the dissolving that death brings.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sacred, Dimensions, Transformation

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

  Sophia Loren

  Luck, Needs, Moments

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Class, Actors, Done

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Germany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.

  Milton Friedman

  Fire, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Past, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.

  Milton Friedman

  Class, Issues, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists.

  Eric Kandel

  Artist, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Cinema, Television

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Grateful, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

  Deborah Reber

  Voice, Giving, Stories

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