The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. Joshua Waitzkin
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
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Stanley Baldwin
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Francis Bacon
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment – that which they cannot anticipate.
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Sun Tzu
We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
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Francine Rivers
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
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Mark Batterson
More Quotes By Joshua Waitzkin
It is important to dream big. What we imagine, we become..we achieve. Even if we don Ìt go the yonder, we will reach way much farther than where we currently stand.
The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.
Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!
Sometimes, I wonder. ....Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into it? If so, at what point do all our identities merge into a final whole? Are we all nameless and blank at point Infinity?
The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.
