Opportunity Quotes

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William Blake
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”
William Blake

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book

Criss Jami
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Steven Johnson
“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.”
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Aaron Lauritsen
“True friends don't come with conditions.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Toni Sorenson
“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.”
Toni Sorenson

Aaron Lauritsen
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Marcel Proust
“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”
Marcel Proust

“It is an acceptance of being uncomfortable that drives change.”
Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

Toba Beta
“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Steve Maraboli
“Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.”
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
Peter O'Toole

Jaime Buckley
“There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on.
The choice is never simple. It’s never easy. It’s not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realized
that the test was always about the heart. ...The rest is just practice.”
Jaime Buckley, Prelude to a Hero

Nora Roberts
“You have to believe in it to get it...”
Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea

Aleister Crowley
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”
Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

C. Toni Graham
“Tolerance doesn’t mean to accept, believe, understand, agree or ignore. Tolerance means yielding to beliefs that are not your own without judgement or condemnation.”
C. Toni Graham

“ Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system. The rest is up to you.

It's up to you to educate yourself.

It's up to you to learn speaking skills and people skills.

It's up to you to try (and usually fail, but to try again) all sorts of ventures.

The rest is a combination of hard work, being at the right place ...at the right time...with the right thing...oh yes...and more (never ending) hard work.”
Gene Simmons

Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
Napoleon Hill

“If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.”
Captain Jack Sparrow

Roshani Chokshi
“I don’t know enough to be serious,” he said carefully. “But I’d like to know enough to have options.”
Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Business leaders make one of two mistakes: overestimating or underestimating their capabilities.”
Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

Robin Hobb
“Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.”
Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Communication is how entrepreneurs tell their story, which, in turn, should inspire employees to work smart and encourage customers to action.”
Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.”
Temitope Owosela

“Think of one thing you can do that will make a big difference in what you are trying to achieve.”
Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

Doris Lessing
“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
Doris Lessing