E. F. Schumacher Quotes

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.

Everything is an opportunity for me.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

You've got to take what comes. You've got to make yourself available for everything; you've got to pray that you're in a position to do the jobs when they come around.

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.