Unexplored Opportunities Quotes

One always wonders about roads not taken.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

All we're ever looking for is another open door.

I know I’ve got loads that has never been tapped.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Make each day a new horizon.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.