Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Opportunity is missed because...#quote


Like mighty winds, opportunities abound to those to decide to see them. They exist in limitless amounts and are waiting to be applied." - Lincoln Patz


It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill


Radcliff Camera, Oxford, England
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life
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Hot air balloonists in the Rhone-Alps area of France
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

* As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

* This is presented as a statement of 1877, as quoted in From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (2007) by Deborah Hedstrom.



I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

* Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother (2007) by Scott Teel

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