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“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.”

Men Kind Problem Jobs Faces Opportunity Class Tomorrow Capable Meaningful Yesterday Educated Satisfying Upper Class Educated Man

Author:Peter Drucker

“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”

Body Artist Opportunity Seeing Capable Models Mature

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.”

“... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.”

People Giving Opportunity Position Capable Tools Organizational

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.”

Opportunity Born Equal Capable Equal Opportunity

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.”

“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.”

“We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.”

Thinking Has Beens Purpose Opportunity Realizing Destiny Waste Capable Could Have Been

Author:Colleen Houck