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As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses. -- Reince Priebus
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. -- Publilius Syrus
My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. -- Michael Merzenich
We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity. -- Jimmy Haynes
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost. -- Quintilian
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. -- Jose Rizal
The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States. -- Stephen Cohen
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. -- Gary Ryan Blair
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. -- Olivier Martinez
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. -- John Engler
We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects! -- Bella Thorne
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. -- Peter York
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people. -- Jenny Shipley
There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam. -- Marco Rubio
I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing. -- Lucy Powell
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. -- Eddie Vedder
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. -- David Suzuki
I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. -- Janeane Garofalo
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ... -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive. -- Zygmunt Bauman
There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere. -- Carolyn Hart
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did. -- Russell L. Ackoff
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. -- Ban Ki-moon
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. -- Stephen Richards
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams. -- Thomas S. Monson
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly. -- Helen Keller
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. -- Andy Rooney
Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing. -- Donald Trump
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else. -- Anatoly Karpov
One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. -- Sharon M. Draper
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. -- Haruki Murakami

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