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3. “God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn’t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you’re closed up tight. That’s the worst sin of all – the sin of omission.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Missed Opportunities, Closed Tight, Inspiration, Sin, Omission, Opportunities
11. “Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took. As my mom often told me when I was growing up, “You regret the things you don’t do, not the things you do.” Sheryl Sandberg Taking Risks, Avoiding Regrets, Missed Opportunities, Action, Courage, Reflection
13. “Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not.” George S. Clason Wise Acts, Missed Opportunities, Torments Of Memory, Wisdom, Actions, Opportunities
20. “You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.” Orson Scott Card Culture, Supremacy, Arrogance, Prejudice, Cultural Blindness, Missed Opportunities
Missed Opportunities Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn’t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you’re closed up tight. That’s the worst sin of all – the sin of omission.”
Simone de Beauvoir Missed Opportunities, Closed Tight, Inspiration, Sin, Omission, Opportunities
11. “Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took. As my mom often told me when I was growing up, “You regret the things you don’t do, not the things you do.”
Sheryl Sandberg Taking Risks, Avoiding Regrets, Missed Opportunities, Action, Courage, Reflection
13. “Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not.”
George S. Clason Wise Acts, Missed Opportunities, Torments Of Memory, Wisdom, Actions, Opportunities
20. “You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.”
Orson Scott Card Culture, Supremacy, Arrogance, Prejudice, Cultural Blindness, Missed Opportunities
