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“Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.”

Book:Leaders' Ladder

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“Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.”

German Definition Missed Opportunity

Book:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I’m always left with such a barren idea of myself if I let an opportunity pass. I get home and I feel like yesterday’s dirty plates, smeared in dried sauce and grease. I have this idea that it’s the women we don’t sleep with who haunt us. They become like a missing page in our book. The part of the story we’ll never know.”

Women Missed Opportunity

Book:The Way Back to Florence

Source: The Way Back to Florence

“If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“In the guv, we train the young people to do mindless tasks until they can supervise other young people doing mindless tasks. There's an actual talent pool there if only we’d develop it.”

Bureaucracy Futility Missed Opportunity Waste Of Life Unrealized Potential

Book:A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Regrets are a sinkhole. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on.”

Imagery Regrets Allegory Metaphors Missed Opportunity

Author:Sima Moussavian - Engineered Death

“Don’t comply with what everyone says; judge out issues before you deal with them!”

Issues Israelmore Ayivor Judgement Judge Judgemental Deal Issue Comply

Book:Leaders' Watchwords

Source: Leaders' Watchwords

“You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.”

Force Negotiation Comply

Book:The Dosadi Experiment

Source: The Dosadi Experiment

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