Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

I'm taking opportunities as they come; I really am. Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn. And it's coming at the right time.

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of sand. Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever.

Everything in life is about timing. I've been able to have my experiences and learn from them and kind of figure out the thing that works for me and is best for me, and that's all I can really say.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.

Often the most unexpected, unpredictable moments in life are the ones that leave the biggest impression and that teach us to roll with the punches.

Wherever there is an opportunity is where you will find me.

Every experience you have in life can be applied to different things.

My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.