Seizing Moments Quotes

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

There are always opportunities one cannot pass up.

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

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.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Every time you train, every time you play, it's an opportunity. You have to use them while you have them.