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• Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn’t have the opportunity to do them.

  Namie Amuro

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Ideas

• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Management, Opportunity

  Tags in Compensation, Wing

• Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Luck, Nature, Opportunity

  Tags in Talent

• … without darkness
  Nothing comes to birth,
  As without light
  Nothing flowers.

  May Sarton

  Topics in Challenge, Fear, Opportunity

• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Commitment, Failure, Opportunity, Success

  Tags in Optimism, Persistence, Patience

• The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past

  Brian Koslow

  Topics in Achievement, Opportunity

  Tags in Freedom

• Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

  Topics in English Proverbs, Opportunity

  Tags in Forest

• On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

  John Abercrombie

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Nervous

• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Reason

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in God, Opportunity

  Tags in Seeing, Beautiful

• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Ability, Opportunity

  Tags in Far
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  Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

  Rae Smith

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Fall

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

  James F. Byrnes

  Topics in Death, Fear, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Security

• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Education, Knowledge, Opportunity, Power

  Tags in Advancement, Today

• I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

  Bert Campaneris

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Play

• I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Education, Opportunity

  Tags in School

• When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

  Bob Marley

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Athlete, Door

• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Topics in Children, Opportunity

  Tags in Land

• We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Friendship, Opportunity

  Tags in Always, Responsibility, Sweet