Kirk Kirkpatrick famous quotes

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

#Motivational #Opportunity #Waiting

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

#Humorous #Loss #Firsts

Anyone who thinks Christmas doesn't last all year just doesn't have a Mastercard.
-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

#Thinking #Years #Lasts

If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

#Loss #Keys #Trying

If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.
-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

#Smart #Income #Pay

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.