opportunity awareness Quotes

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them

How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other."

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

I have to have an attitude of gratitude and not miss opportunities.

From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now.

One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.