#occasion

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#even #i #many #my time #near

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#common #extraordinary #great #make #men

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#educated #great #just #make #occasion

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#life #many #occasioned #once #things

I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me. ↗

— Teena Marie

#actual #am #appeal #becomes #fans

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#cigar #occasional #pleasure #smoke #woman

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future. ↗

— Eric Massa

#friend #future #good #good friend #i

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#hollywood #long #makes #occasionally #peaches

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗

— Herman Melville

#call #certain #his #joke #life

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#every #occasion #should #used