opportunity

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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

- Hazlitt, William

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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

- Andretti, Mario

3.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

- Hippocrates

4.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

- Williamson, John

5.

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

- Kiam, Victor

7.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

8.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

- Keller, Helen

9.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

- Meir, Golda

10.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

- Robbins, Anthony

11.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

- Chapman, John Jay

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

14.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

- Orison Swett Marden

15.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

- Best of Bits and Pieces

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

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Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

- Kazuo Inamori

18.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

- Crowley, Aleister

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

- Flanders, Alberta