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Letter "O" » Opportunity
«During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.»
Author: Brian Koslow
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
negotiation, negotiations, objectively, personalities, personally
«A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.»
Author: Harvey S. Firestone
| About:
Circumstances,
Control,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
controlled, surplus, surpluses
«Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.»
Author: Mary Frances Berry
(Writer)
| About:
Civil rights,
Opportunity,
Right
| Keywords:
civil, civil right, civil rights, get through, windows
«Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
common, extraordinary, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, opportunities, seize, seize on, seizing, wait, weak
«Each Day Is A Brand New Opportunity To Be Jesus To The World.»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
equal opportunity, incompetent, incompetents
«Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Opportunity,
Peace,
Preparation
| Keywords:
Avoiding, cultivating, prepare for, repel, repelled
«A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.»
«America is another name for opportunity.»
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