Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

I knock unbidden once at every gate--
If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
I turn away--it is read more

I knock unbidden once at every gate--
If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
I answer not, and I return no more.

The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an read more

The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door,
and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The
world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases
can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him
forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have
to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity
does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves
that they are alive.

Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast read more

The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.'