Opportunity Quotes - Page 46

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Don’t just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

We who are born from above testify to the change that God has wrought in our hearts. Perhaps the best time for you to tell someone what has taken place in your life is when that person comes to you and says, 'What has happened to you? I have known you before and after. You are different, Tell me about it.' This is the best opportunity to tell someone about Christ. If they don't see a difference, all the talking in the world is meaningless.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

We have an opportunity to get better.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk.

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.