opportunity........................

 

While we tend to think of inspiration as bolt-from-the-blue, God-given brilliance, this instant form of ideation tends to be much rarer than the other kinds—plenary, moral, mechanical, and dynamical—that the medieval intellectuals listed.  But most often, an opportunity begins as a failure.  That's why most of us miss it.

-Jay Heinrichs, Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion