Sayings About Missing Opportunities

#1. Those who choose to focus on what they don't have, or allow negativity to overpower their day, are in risk of missing opportunities of the moment.

Andi Jones

#2. There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

Maelle Gavet

#3. Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

John C. Maxwell

#4. A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

Sol Stein

#5. I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

James Mercer

#6. Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Lily Tomlin

#7. We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

Letitia Baldrige

#8. Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.

Molly Friedenfeld

#9. I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

Jennifer Hudson

#10. I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

Nicole Appleton

#11. It's our job to pass on our wisdom about life to our kids. I'm really afraid she's missing out on something essential. The exposure to different subjects, different ways of thinking, the challenges, opportunities, the people you meet.

Lisa Genova

#12. Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

Steve Martin

#13. Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

James Van Praagh

#14. Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

Nido R. Qubein

#15. When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

John Wooden

#16. Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Quintus Ennius

#17. In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

#19. Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

Alan Colmes

#20. I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

Bela Fleck

#21. The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor,

Edward Lazear

#22. The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

Frederick Lenz

#23. I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me.

Daniel Radcliffe

#24. Screw you, John."
"Sorry, Sylvie. Can't - they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#25. If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

Vince Gilligan

#26. Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A confession obtained from an accused who has been threatened cannot be admissible.

John Grisham

#27. You've missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you've missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won't miss this next one.

Victoria Laurie

#28. Letting go is easy.
All you do is realize how crazy it is to live in the fantasy land of your mind at the expense of missing real opportunities in reality.

Akemi G

#29. Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

Jim Rohn

#30. Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Robert Kiyosaki

#31. I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#32. If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.

Paul Clitheroe

#33. I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Seth Godin