“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

Ralph Smart

“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit”

Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) Italian writer

“I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

Press conference (8 October 1996)
Context: I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

“Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Treason (1988)

“you create your opportunities by asking for them”

Shakti Gawain (1948–2018) Author

“Hell is a fallacy, and heaven is a fantasy created by man.”

Blu (1983) American rapper and music producer

The World Is (Below the Heavens)
Below the Heavens (2007)

“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) Mexican painter, muralist, Communist

On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth https://books.google.com/books?id=KpZRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq

“One cannot reach paradise by creating Hell for others”

Mohammad Khatami (1943) Iranian prominent reformist politician, scholar and shiite faqih.

Morning Edition with Jacki Northam, National Public Radio, September 8, 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5786976

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

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