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It is less important to redistribute
wealth
than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Arthur Vandenberg |
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A door
that seems to stand open must be a person's size,
or it is
not the door that Providence means for him or her.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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Opportunities do not come with their
values stamped upon them. . . .
To face very opportunity
of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning
bravely and
earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities
when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie D. Babcock |
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It is
something to be
able to
paint a
particular picture,
or
to
carve a statue,
and so to
make a few
objects beautiful;
but
it is far more glorious
to carve and paint
the very
atmosphere
and medium
through
which we look. To
affect the quality of
the day--
that is the
highest of
arts.
Henry David Thoreau
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We
are told that talent creates it own opportunities.
But it
sometimes seems that intense desire creates
not only its
own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer |
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Nothing
is so irretrievably missed
as a daily opportunity.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
Opportunities are
seldom labeled.
John A. Shedd |
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No great person
ever
complains
of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Opportunities are often things you
haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve |
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The opportunities for enjoyment in
your life are limitless.
If you feel you are not
experiencing enough joy,
you have only yourself to blame.
David E. Bresler |
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When one
door closes, another opens. But we often look so long
and
so regretfully upon the closed door that
we do not see
the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller |
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Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity;
they seem more afraid of life
than of death.
James F. Byrnes |
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Our opportunities to do good
are our talents.
Cotton Mather |
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Opportunity can benefit no
people who have not fitted themselves
to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy,
shuns the unworthy. Prepare
yourself to grasp opportunity,
and opportunity is likely
to come your way. It is not so fickle,
capricious and
unreasoning as some complain.
B.C. Forbes |
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It is
often hard to distinguish between
the hard knocks in life
and those of opportunity.
Frederick Phillips |
Opportunities multiply as they
are seized; they die when neglected.
Life is a long line
of opportunities.
John Wicker |
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Next to knowing when to
seize an opportunity,
the most important thing in life is to know when
to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli |
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Go
around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances.
Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities,
and only by
gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence
Birdseye |
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Problems
are only opportunities
in work clothes.
Henry J.
Kaiser |
We are
continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised
as insoluble problems.
Anonymous |
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There are such wonderful
possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
No human being
is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening
opportunities
that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
Samuel Gompers |
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Problems
are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh
Miller |
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There
is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood,
out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in
despair,
leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream
he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood
which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced
a masterpiece from a log of common firewood.
Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find
sandalwood
for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that
we burn.
Orison
Swett Marden |
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It is very dangerous to go into eternity with
possibilities which one has
oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a
hint from
God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard |
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Now
that I know how many opportunities I've let go by,
it's up to me to teach myself how to recognize them
and take advantage of them. And the burden isn't
completely on me--there are plenty of books and tape
programs out there that can help us to learn to do
these things. This is material that should be taught in
schools, but it isn't, so we have to find other teachers
outside of the classroom who have focused on this
sort of thing as their own area of expertise.
tom
walsh |
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As adults, we tend to overthink and overanalyze. We also
forget to pay attention.
Before we know it, an opportunity is gone. A friend gets tired
of waiting for you
to respond to an invitation. Your child's impromptu,
after-dinner performance
can't compete with your need to clean up the kitchen. In the
business world,
opportunities come and go in a heartbeat. . . . Certainly, careful
examination is
essential in many situations. But it's not always possible to
know what's around the next corner.
Leslie Levine |
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Opportunity
beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person
than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave
of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let
it,
enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations
with a more knowledgeable judgment.
Epictetus |
