Og Mandino Quotes

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

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• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• Predictions are preposterous.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Future
  • Predictions

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Future
  • Disappear
  • Cataclysm

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Get

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Long
  • Important
  • Together

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Support

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Good
  • Work
  • Serious

• None of the constitutional, legal or other principles bars me from returning to the judiciary, since the judiciary remains independent if the actors remain independent and fair.

  

  Khil Raj Regmi
  • Independent

• Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • World
  • Energy
  • Problem

• Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Comedy

• This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Important
  • Truth

• Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Future
  • Opportunity