Tweets on a single topic ("Ability and Opportunity") published within a short period.
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May 6 2011: Part of success is opportunity, the other ability. You can't neglect either side of the equation. [view in context] 4689
May 6 2011: Ability is how well you do what you claim to. If you want to be a singer, you must sing well, even if no one hears. 4690
May 6 2011: Opportunity is the unpredictable circumstances of the world allowing you to exercise your ability. Your main control lies in recognizing it. 4691
May 6 2011: There are no perfect opportunities. Each requires compromises. You must adjust your own goals to match what the world is offering. 4692
May 6 2011: When the world gives you few opportunities, you can still work on your abilities. 4693
May 6 2011: Although opportunity often blesses those of little ability (@ParisHilton@KimKardashian), ability stacks the odds in your favor. 4694
May 6 2011: If you would be a songwriter, then write songs! Whether anyone sings them has no bearing on the quality of the product. 4695
May 6 2011: Producing a great product is 100% your own responsibility. It has little to do with your opportunities. 4696
May 6 2011: If you sit down to write the great novel and can't do it, no opportunity in the world is going to change that situation. 4697
May 6 2011: Young people tend to dwell on opportunity—on being "discovered" by powerful others—while neglecting ability. 4698
May 6 2011: You have far more control over ability than opportunity. You can always improve your abilities by exercising and fine-tuning them. 4699
May 6 2011: Your chief control over opportunity is recognizing it when it happens and seeing it where others don't. 4700
May 6 2011: The most important skill of success is seeing opportunity where others see only problems. 4701
May 6 2011: "Motivational outsourcing" is when you expect others to inspire you, structure you or push you to succeed. 4702
May 6 2011: An example of motivational outsourcing is a class on creativity. If you are taking the class, then you are not being creative. 4703
May 6 2011: True creativity can only come from within. 4704
May 6 2011: If you want to be creative, then create, dammit! No one can do it for you. 4705
May 6 2011: The way to be creative is to get off your ass and actually do the thing you claim to aspire to. 4706
May 6 2011: You can't become a movie director overnight, but you can pick up a video camera and use it, putting out the best product possible. 4707
May 6 2011: You can't plan on opportunities—They happen when they will.—but you can plan on being ready for opportunities. 4708
May 6 2011: The vast majority of opportunities go unrecognized, because no one recognizes them or is prepared to jump on them. 4709
May 6 2011: Life is like a railway network without a schedule. Sooner or later a train will pass by going in your direction, but you have to jump on! 4710
May 6 2011: When the train of opportunity passes by, will you see it? Will you be free to jump on? Or will the train breeze by, leaving you behind? 4711
May 6 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Ability and Opportunity". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4712
May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama you're on FIRE this essay!! :) :) love it. Thank you! 4713
May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama I love for your tweets, they're so insightful... I've said it before, I'll say it again. Thank you. 4714
May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama A good old friend use to say. I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down ... 4715
May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni A good old friend use to say, "I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down." [view in context]
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