Quotes About Recognizing Opportunity

#1. To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.

Joseph G. Peterson

#2. To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

Michelle Obama

#3. It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

Charlie Cox

#4. I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

Dita Von Teese

#5. Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

Peter Ginter

#6. The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Rohinton Mistry

#7. Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.

Thomas Perez

#8. What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Natasha Josefowitz

#9. I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

Dennis Lehane

#10. The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

Laurence Sterne

#12. Often of late she has accused herself of being a hard woman. As if she will not suffer her soil to be raw and tender, will not submit to the vulnerability of the new green shoot.

Glenn Haybittle

#13. Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

Tanya Huff

#14. It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.

Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

#15. I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

John Eldredge

#16. I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Lynne Truss

#17. If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

C. K. Prahalad