A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

William Arthur Ward

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William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Mark Tobey

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

Grant Hill

The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Peter Wilson

When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.

Thomas S. Monson

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

Anatol Rapoport

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

Irvin Mayfield

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

Neal A. Maxwell

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Henry Ward Beecher

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

Charles James

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

Henry L. Stimson

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

Mike Bickle

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Thomas S. Monson

Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.

Scott Moir

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

Melissa Bean

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