“I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.” YearsLongLyingOpportunityWaterEffortWatchesStrengthGainsAppreciateRelaxationHurrying Author:Ellen Swallow Richards
“Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.” ThinkingYearsChildrenTwoMovingOpportunityTeachingTwentiesForgivingDecadesWarningApologizingNurturingRemindingDeciding What To DoWrong Move Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.” PeopleNeedsFeelsYearsKindMayGovernmentOpportunityLeadershipVirtueWorstDangerDutySuperiorsGoldenInherentCivicsReluctantCivic DutyDistasteGolden Opportunity Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.” YearsMaySoulLastsOpportunityJesusWinningChristWalksPathOur LivesJourneyCenturyDutyConflictDifficultyDetermineTrialsHillsHeightMarchNew YearLast YearClosestFellowshipSunnyNew Opportunity Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsI CanOpportunityVoiceFindingsNew Opportunity Author:Taylor Dane
“Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsLooksLongDoeAbleLastsOpportunityFootballVery GoodHopefullyLast YearLong WayGreat OpportunityGood Opportunity Author:Bill Parcells
“I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingYearsLittlesWholeShowsBodyOpportunityStrongChallengesHealthyTrainingSkinsConstantRoundsWhole LifeFeel GoodPushingBalletUnderwearPush YourselfBallerina Author:Angelina Jolie
“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.” PeopleYearsStillsStatesJobsFoundOpportunityLostTalkingFiveIndustryComputerYears AgoTwentiesConstantPhonesCellsFive YearsCell PhoneTwenty Five Author:Wayne Dyer
“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.” PeopleYearsFirstsMomentsMotherOpportunityNamesGivenBornBrotherMoonLifetimeFortunateRight TimeRight PlaceFlewWright Brothers Author:Buzz Aldrin
“When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.” YearsHelpingAbleCultureOpportunityEnergyFeltSidesYouthProjectsExtraordinaryEastCaptureJohnsonEast Side Author:Anne Waldman
“Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.” PeopleYearsEndsOpportunityMiddleSolitudeRewardsGlad Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.” YearsStatesOpportunityBornUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingGrewInvolvedGrew UpMathIranGet InvolvedReally Cool Author:Anousheh Ansari