One of the things I've learned from the leaders I've met is that I might run 100 miles to get to one place when they've opened a gate, walked 200 yards and got to the same point.
"At the age of 35, I felt like someone had opened a gate into a fantastic secret garden full of gobby Amazonians," Dent writes in the book How to Leave Twitter.
He said the flood warning came too late for the farmer to move his sheep in daylight and the power of the floodwater had opened a gate which had allowed the sheep to roam until they were swept away by the rising river water.
Give other people the opportunity to express their generosity to you, and you have opened an important gate to giving -- giving thanks.
A few hundred yards upstream, just out of sight, a gate had opened a couple of hours earlier, and a great white sheet of water spilled from the top of the 1,150-foot-wide 1,150-foot-wide 1,150-foot-wide
The ineligibility of Kadabra has opened the gate for several challengers in Saturday's $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands.
He has opened the gate between the upper and lower halves of his body, usually separate in traditional Irish dance, and discovered his pelvis.
Now done, AT&T-Time Warner has opened the gate for other mega media deals.
And that has opened the gates to a flood of security measures by the federal government that local officials have felt helpless to resist.
The recent expansion of molecular biology techniques has opened the gates for a rapid advancement in our knowledge of disease mechanisms.
Since 2008, East Atlanta has opened its gates to an international mob of creeps, bozos, groupies, and uptight record geeks for a three-day-long party that rivals a wild New Year's Eve without all the backwards counting.
