Opportunity Quotes - Page 34

• I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Children, Doubt, Safe

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• For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.

  Dov Seidman

  Confidence, Moving, Journey

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, United States, Wilderness

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• So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Happiness, Education, Men

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• To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

  Taylor Dane

  Years, Voice, People

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• Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth of equality can never become real. Far more than a hollow promise of future opportunity for their children, parents need jobs, income, and services. And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.

  Albert Belle

  Second Chance, Games, Play

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• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Meditation, Missing

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  Barack Obama

  Should Have, Ideas, America

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• Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Play, Trying, Different

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• The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.

  James Arthur Ray

  Adventure, Warrior, Space

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• When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Halfway There, Challenges, Roadblock

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• For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

  John Darnielle

  Moving, Enough, Bigs

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Calling, Distraction

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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• Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Land, Cities, People

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• I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Essence, Practice, People

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• We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Thinking, People

  "The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2015.

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• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Community, Nuclear

  Statement by the President on the Framework to Prevent Iran from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 2, 2015.

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Next, Pixar

  BusinessWeek, November 23, 1998.

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• America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Outcomes, Guarantees

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• What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

  David Sobel

  Children, Important, World

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• Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.

  Billy Graham

  Journey, Giving, Joy

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

  Vivian Schiller

  Media, Bigs, Disruption

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