opportunities

Watching the last installment of PBS’s documentary on New York, we learn of the 50-year-old architect Minoru Yamasaki who was chosen over many other legendary architects at the time to create the World Trade Center.

“And this was of course for him the opportunity of a lifetime,” the narrator mentions.

I wonder if approaching more of our work as “the opportunity of a lifetime” would lead to it actually becoming the something special we all hope to contribute.

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." 

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 -    )
American founder and president
of the Children's Defense Fund

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