"Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery."
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"Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities."
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"You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself."
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"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."
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"The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom."
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"Life is the constant opportunity to wake up."
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"The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever."
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"Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity."
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"China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves."
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"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."
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"My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football."
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"Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are."
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"When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar."
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"I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity."
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"People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked."
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"Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway."
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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
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"Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is."
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"Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste."
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