#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

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

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#motivational #opportunity #dreams

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. ↗

— Max Baucus

#reform #tax #tax reform

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen. ↗

— Bobby Bonilla

#had #happen #i #make #opportunity

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#building #fact #go #house #in fact

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#england #had #i #know #little

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#always #because #best #economy #given