Quotes about opportunity
opportunity people age
Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties. Thomas Sowell
opportunity matter notion
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. Thomas Sowell
opportunity rights decision
Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results. Thomas Sowell
opportunity thinking government
One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities. Thomas Sowell
opportunity design training
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. Robert Moog
opportunity thinking inspire
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. Robert Moog
opportunity thinking people
In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow. Robert H. Schuller
opportunity views challenges
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well. Robert Greene
opportunity artist want
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do. Robert Barry
opportunity thinking style
If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works. Robert Barry
opportunity opportunities-to-learn hinder
The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further. Robert Anton Wilson
opportunity cities want
I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities. Rob Kardashian
opportunity scare saying-yes
Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes. Rob Lowe
opportunity thinking hardship
My birth experience is not right for everyone, but it was so right for me. I am changed because of that experience, i saw my power and I felt my power, and it's gotten me through a lot of hardship. I tell myself that if i could get through that, I can get through anything. I think women are losing an opportunity by not aspiring to have births in which they are active participants. Ricki Lake
opportunity play people
People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame. Rickey Henderson
opportunity player games
You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game. Rickey Henderson
opportunity agriculture use
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. Richard Lugar
opportunity matter needs
As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity. Richard Lugar
opportunity men challenges
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth. Richard M. Nixon
opportunity giving people
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time. Richard M. Nixon
opportunity love-is recognition
But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish. Raymond E. Feist
opportunity calm strategy
Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace. Richard Grasso
opportunity play guilty
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty. Richard Ford
opportunity stills whole
I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more. Richard Gere
opportunity views tests
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. Robert D. Hare
opportunity people feelings
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together. Rob Bell
opportunity obstacles ifs
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities. Tucker Max
opportunity bad-ass chance
I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her. Trey Gowdy
opportunity wanted
I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. Trevor Nunn
opportunity littles kind
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. Tracy K. Smith
opportunity flattery insolence
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. Sarah Fielding
opportunity challenges excellence
It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities. Sarah Jessica Parker
opportunity thinking people
I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to. Sarah Jessica Parker