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«When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Regret
| Keywords:
closed-door, closed, closes, opened, opens, regretfully
«We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.»
«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.»
Author: Edith Lovejoy Pierce
| About:
Books,
New Year,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, chapter, chapters, first book, pages, the book, The New Year
«Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.»
«We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
brilliantly, disguised, disguises, disguising, faced, insoluble, opportunities, series
«When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.»
«When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
indifferent, swing, swinging door, The Doors
«Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Colors,
Education,
Justice,
Opportunity,
Race
| Keywords:
emancipation, proclamation, proclamations, skins, skin color, unaware, unconcerned
«To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
catch, golden, improve
«Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Chance,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
educated, occasion, prepared, profit, proportion, ridiculous
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