Things Civilization Runs On Without Naming

Allow

Are Easily Lost

Are Mostly Timing

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Before You're Ready

Arrive Uninvited

Become Less Valuable After Use

Become More Valuable When Rare

Become Real Through Recognition

Become Stronger When Shared

Become Visible From Far Away

Begin

Borrow Authority From Scarcity

Borrow Importance From Scarcity

Carry Hope

Challenge Identity

Change Hands

Circulate

Close A Door

Close Early

Close Too Fast

Collect Around Success

Create Acceleration

Create Discontinuity

Create Divergence

Create Escape

Create Freedom

Create Gravity

Create Impermanence

Create Interruption

Create Longing

Create Obligation

Create Obligations

Create Openings

Create Optionality

Create Ripples

Create Surprise

Create Their Own Gravity

Create Uncertainty

Decay

Depend On Timing

Disappear

Escape

Exist To Be Found

Exist To Be Lost

Gather Around Success

Happen While You Wait

Hurry

Improve By Being Passed Along

Invite

Invite Departure

Knock Twice

Leave Openings

Make The Future Reachable

Mark Beginning

Occupy Attention

Only Happen Once You're Older

Organize Hope

Punish Arrival Late

Quietly Contract

Quietly Decide Futures

Quietly Multiply

Quietly Shape A Life

Recruit The Future

Redirect

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Return

Reward Circulation

Reward Departure

Reward Discontinuity

Reward Flexibility

Reward Generosity

Reward Gratitude

Reward Improvisation

Reward Preparation

Reward Temptation

Reward Timing

Reward Urgency

Ring Twice

Spoil

Tempt

Wait

Wait Patiently

opportunity

snowman

one-liner

haunted house

adversity

confidence

shyness

is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

On the whole, the 'opportunity side' of modernity was stressed most strongly by the classical founders of sociology. Marx and Durkheim both saw the modern era as a troubled one.one. But each believed that the beneficent possibilities opened up by the modern era outweighed its negative characteristics' (Giddens 1990:6).

 is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison

is often missed because it sometimes comes disguised in overalls.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls. Henry Ford

is not something that is found, it is something that is made.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Sir Francis Bacon)

 knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. Mark Twain

opportunity, n.All

opportunity