It is good to be prepared in case opportunity comes along, that is the well understood maxim. But, it is equally important that you think through how to create opportunities that would not exist otherwise. That might be getting the courage to meet or write those who could help you. It might be seeing a need and filling it in someone’s, or some enterprise’s life. But no matter what direction the opportunity resides in, it takes courage and confidence, above all else, to go in that direction. And courage and confidence do not exist without belief in one’s self and one’s vision and abilities. Do you have that?
“A wise person will make more opportunities than they find.” – Francis Bacon
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>i would say that a truly wise person doesn’t make opportunities at all– he just lives, and they come to him. it’s the “be” vs. “do” all over again.
so maybe this quotation is exactly backwards–
“a wise person find more opportunities than he makes”.
…thoughts?