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• Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  Iris Origo

  Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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• How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Vida, Arrepentimiento, Error

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 04, 2014

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• I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not "literary journalism," a misleading term, but rather journalism that asks the questions that serious literature asks. It's storytelling that happens to be true. So I don't think it was a missed opportunity. After awhile you learn what you're really good at. Life is short, so spend time doing that.

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Believe, Writing, Life Is Short

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

  Martin Schulz

  Opportunity, Whining, No Point

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• [Dios es capaz de tomar tu vida, con toda la angustia, todo el dolor, todo el arrepentimiento, todas las oportunidades perdidas, y utilizarte para Su gloria.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Regret, Opportunity

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• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

  Andrew Lang

  Opportunity, Tongue, Public Speaking

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• For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.

  Kevin Hearne

  Kindness, Regret, Stress

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.716, Del Rey

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• Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

  Matthew Carter

  Opportunity, Trying, Pieces

  Matthew Carter (2009). “Liquid Soul”, p.7, Matthew Carter

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• Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

  Alain de Botton

  Regret, Opportunity, Allowance

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.123, Pan Macmillan

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• Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

  Brian Chesky

  Empleo, Oportunidad, Pensamiento

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• Creo que podría echar la vista atrás a los últimos años para ver las oportunidades perdidas y esas cosas, pero una cosa que he aprendido es a no fijarme en las oportunidades perdidas o en los momentos en los que has fracasado.

  Michael Chang

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

  Clive Owen

  Opportunity, Worry, Looks

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• It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Change, Opportunity, Mirrors

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• Lo que cuenta es la oportunidad perdida, y en un amor que se anhela vanamente desde detrás de los barrotes de la cárcel tienes acaso el amor supremo.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Opportunity, Bars

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• [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Regret, Opportunity

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.251, A&C Black

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• Me he mantenido fiel a mis convicciones más profundas. Me refiero a la valentía de los que han nacido para ser derrotados, a las debilidades de los fuertes y a la tragedia de los malentendidos y las oportunidades perdidas, que he hecho todo lo posible por tratar como comedia, pues de otro modo ¿cómo podríamos soportarlo?

  Penélope Fitzgerald

  Strong, Mean, Opportunity

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Leader, Risk

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2016

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• The fact that women begin to avoid running for public office because of the harassment and sometimes even violence that they face as a hazard, it means that the world is being robbed of extraordinary leadership that women can bring to bear. And of course, if women as professionals begin to look at making career choices because they're looking at whether Am I going to be safe or not? You can imagine the missed opportunities that are out there for women.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Fuente: www.popsugar.com

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• When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

  Sloane Crosley

  Opportunity, Cities, Ends

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin

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• The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

  James Redfield

  Determination, Pain, Live Life

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• I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Regret, Nice, Adventure

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• La gente espera que las autoridades se hagan cargo de los grandes problemas y los resuelvan. Tuvimos la oportunidad de reformar la Seguridad Social para proteger las prestaciones y crear un sistema solvente. Los trabajadores más jóvenes estarían seguros de que el dinero que aportaban al sistema estaría a su disposición cuando se jubilaran. Fue una oportunidad perdida. Lo lamento.

  George W. Bush

  Arrepentimiento, Oportunidad, Gente

  Fuente: www.aarp.org

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• No temas perder oportunidades. Detrás de cada fracaso hay una oportunidad que alguien desearía haber perdido.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspiring, Failure, Fall

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• Vivir bien es la mejor venganza. Si la oportunidad no llama, construye una puerta.

  Max Eastman

  Inspiración, motivación, graduación

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• So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

  William Mapother

  New York, Oportunidad, Años

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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