A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
quote by Harry Truman
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The clever make opportunities
Of others’ difficulties
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
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Savvy Minds Seize Opportunities
equal not often opportunities
opportunities lacking required degrees
of savvy as strike out scenarios
trajectory implies reality conflicts
prospect improvement requires changes
savvy minds utilize world opportunities
poem by Terence George Craddock
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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
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The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.
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A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
quote by Robert Heinlein
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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Octopi Opportunities
octopus opportunities searching
tentacles reaching
grasping opportunities eightfold
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I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
quote by Leon Redbone
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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.