To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.
Inspiring Opportunity Quotes to Encourage You to Seize the Moment - page 9
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable.
Katherine Paterson
I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.
Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.
Keith Sweat
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
Jacqueline Cochran
Major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action.
Ruth Simmons
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.
Elliot W. Eisner
Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.
Peter Ginter
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
Quentin Bryce
