Disaster Opportunity Quotes

#1. The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

Jim Rohn

#2. He can do it any time he wants,' says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. 'Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo.

Morris Gleitzman

#3. Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Icke

#4. If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Sun Tzu

#5. Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.

Gaylene Preston

#6. Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

Lester Wunderman

#7. I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.

Bobby Jindal

#8. Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.

Arie De Geus

#9. Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.

Woody Allen

#10. There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

Richard Bach

#11. I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

Peter Jackson

#12. For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or so, sustainable development will constitute one of the biggest opportunities in the history of commerce. And innovation will be the name of the game.

Stuart L. Hart

#13. It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war.

Naomi Klein

#14. You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

Ray Bradbury

#15. No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

Donald Phillip Verene

#16. Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong

Janice Young Brooks

#17. I love you, I've loved you for years and I'll love you for years more. It's not something I can fight, it's not something I want to fight.

Somi Ekhasomhi

#18. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller

#19. A bad marriage is a season in hell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
... There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

Don McLean

#22. A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

#23. Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Dalai Lama

#24. In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Ben Elliot

#25. People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Jayson Blair

#26. A problem's nothing but an opportunity wearing a funny hat, and inside every disaster there's a triumph struggling to get out.

Tom Holt

#27. What is a disaster for most is an opportunity for a few.

Richard Ney

#28. What feels like a disaster can be your new opportunity.

Robyn Carr

#29. In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Fred Rogers