People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.
My dad used to tell me, 'Look, son, opportunity does not come knocking.' It's usually running down the street, and you have to chase it down, you have to tackle it, and then you have to hang on to it.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.