Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we missed. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2009 starring Brad Pitt & Robert Towers & Peter Donald Badalamenti & Tom Everett & Spencer Daniels & Chandler Canterbury & Cate Blanchett & Elle Fanning & Julia Ormond & Taraji P Henson et al, director David Fincher
Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity. David P Ingerson
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before. Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal November, 2008
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity. Dan Rather
What is this mysterious force and can it be harnessed? Derren Brown: The Experiments: The Secret of Luck
So I asked Dawn to go back and visit the seven residents she chose who don’t know that the lucky dog story is made up. ibid.
The difference between lucky and unlucky is simply to what extent they embrace opportunities in life. ibid.
Where there’s war there’s opportunity. Blood In, Blood Out 1993 starring Damian Chapa & Jesse Borrego & Benjamin Bratt & Enrique Castillo & Delroy Lindo & Victor Rivers & Geoffrey Rivas & Tom Towles & Carlos Carrasco et al, director Taylor Hackford, Miklo