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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity."
"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
"If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand."
"Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself."
"Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning."
"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."
Explore more quotes by John Burroughs
"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
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