#opportunity

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. ↗

— John Wooden

#teaching #opportunity

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ↗

— Edith Lovejoy Pierce

#opportunity #opportunity

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarian #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

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 do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo. ↗

— Shania Twain

#family #family life #form #i #i do

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#i #loved #me #opportunity #thank

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#grail #holy #holy grail #me #most