Showing posts with label opportunity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opportunity. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Post #3121

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
—Ann Landers

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Post #3117

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
—Sir Francis Bacon

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Post #3073

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Friday, June 07, 2019

Post #2845

Occasions are rare: and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
—H. W. Shaw

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Post #2337

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
—Cardinal Imperiali

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Post #2193

Four things come not back.
        The spoken word,
        The sped arrow,
        The past life,
        And the neglected opportunity.
—Arabic Proverb

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Post #2187

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
—William Shakespeare

Monday, October 17, 2016

Post #2186

To let slip a favorable opportunity is the greatest proof of imbecility.
—Pittacus

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Post #1609

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
—Charles Buxton

Friday, September 07, 2012

Post #1053

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Post #942

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
—Mark Twain

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Post #800

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
—Arthur Vandenberg

Monday, November 21, 2011

Post #777

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
—Walter Chrysler

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Post #651

You decide you'll wait for your pitch.  Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance.  And then you think about your swing.  And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
—Bobby Mercer

Monday, November 15, 2010

Post #409

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.
—Henriette Anne Klauser

Monday, September 27, 2010

Post #360

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Post #133

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
—John W. Gardner

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Post #100

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
—Hippocrates

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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