"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."

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Source : Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

Edward de Bono

#Inspirational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big”
“Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.”
“But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more”
“Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”

Source : Yves Klein, Gimpel Fils (1973). “Yves Klein”
“The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.”
“My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.”
“Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause.”
“Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.”

Source : Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.141, NYU Press

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