"A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs."
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"To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
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"I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it."
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"There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story."
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"What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it."
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"Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life."
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"What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity."
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"Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face."
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"Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a lot of marketing opportunities. It does not mean investing a lot of money."
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"A strong imagination begetteth opportunity."
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"The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity."
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"Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life."
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"Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you."
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"When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form."
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"Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze."
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"For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again."
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"The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want."
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"This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there."
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