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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed... -- James Surowiecki
What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been. -- Audrey Hepburn
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
A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians. -- Antony Beevor
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. -- James Surowiecki
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
They missed a great opportunity to shut up. -- Jacques Chirac
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities. -- Jim Broadbent
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew Lang
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. -- Publilius Syrus
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. -- Graydon Carter
Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed. -- Jennifer Lopez
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. -- Lily Tomlin
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy. -- Marty Meehan
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss. -- Robert Orben
We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help. -- John Tesh
I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012. -- Rainey Qualley
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed. -- Michael Chang
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. -- Bruce Greenwood
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. -- James E. Faust
There's no point whining about missed opportunities. -- Martin Schulz
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities. -- Clive Owen
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities, -- Clive Owen
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. -- I. M. Pei
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. -- Jodi Picoult
I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. -- Elizabeth Berg
Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you. -- Ryan Robbins
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
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in. -- Michael Connelly
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
I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. -- Garry Kasparov
Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies. -- Joseph Muscat
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
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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

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