#opportunity

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#opportunity

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#opportunity

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. ↗

— Nicholas Kristof

#generations #inequality #inequity #opportunity #united-states

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#opportunity #rebellion #rebellion

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ceased #had #i #opportunity #see

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#becoming #gift #give #life #life is a

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom. ↗

— Lance Ito

#courtroom #evaluate #fully #had #i

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#should #use #voice #you #your

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#actual process #boring #filmmaking #hours #i

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#action #before #believe #broad #charted