“The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.” OpportunityMediaDevilGardenAdamEdenAdam And EveGarden Of Eden Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.” SometimesWholeOpportunityHouseRoomsViewsDesignBuildingGardenArchitectureDramaticEpicMaintainingExhibitsSubordination Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.” SeemsRunningJobsOpportunityHouseCommunityForgetBusinessEnvironmentDoorsWindGardenWindowPlantClimateContractsFarmersCropsFittingEntrepreneurialFurnacesSolar PanelsBiofuelsBoilerTurbinesFarmers MarketsWind TurbinesWindows And DoorsCommunity Garden Book:Rebuild the Dream Source: Rebuild the Dream
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“I had an opportunity to move to L.A. back in 1999 and start up a horse racing network of all things. At the time, I was younger and married but didn't have kids; so we thought, Let's just go to L.A. for a while and have fun, and we can always come home. One thing led to another; and once I was out there, I had my eyes opened to this other world and quickly got a home and gardens show and did a game show and then The Bachelor ended up falling into my lap in 2001. And 'the rest is history' as they say.” WorldShowsHomeEyeKidsMovingFallOpportunityGamesFunOne ThingMarriedGardenAll ThingsHorseHaving FunComing HomeRacingLapOther WorldsBachelorsHorse RacingGame Shows Author:Chris Harrison
“When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.” WayStatesUseHomeOpportunityPerfectDevelopmentHeroGardenNarrativeTornBackdropSuper Hero Author:Kerry James Marshall
“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.” AgePoliticalOpportunityGrowthAbilityBoysTreeConditionsDevelopmentCircumstancesGardenStonesPersonal GrowthDeterminedApplesLionsInnateConstrainApple TreesStone Age Author:Jostein Gaarder
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” InspirationalWarActionOpportunityActingPositive ThinkingGardenAtheistArt Of War Author:Sun Tzu
“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity” PeopleIfsNeedsKindHandsFormOpportunityPayPleaseGardenMurderRaisesPlantWeedFragileGreenhousesDandelions Author:Robert Fulghum
“Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.” Life IsChoicesOpportunityGrowsDependsGardenRoseWeed Author:Rajneesh
“You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.” IfsEarthPainBeautifulDeathPurposeOpportunityGivenGrowsLossExistencePlanetsFlowerGardenSickSandIronHardshipTemperSolePlanet EarthFlower GardenBeautiful Flower Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.” HomeSpiritUniverseOpportunitySituationTeachPiecesCircumstancesHolyGardenCurrentsCornersHoly SpiritOur Relationship Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life” IfsMenOpportunityHouseHealthyGardenGardeningSurroundingsFamily LifeHappy FamilyGardening And God Author:George Cadbury
“Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.” GivingTryingChildrenMatterOpportunityGrowsGardenPlant Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey