Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Anderson Cooper

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

David Mamet

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Fincher

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

David Fincher

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

David Bolland

Not many guys get 50 goals and 100 points in a season during their OHL careers so it's a big thing. I'm keeping the puck. I'm glad to get it done. It would've been nice if one of us got our 50th at home but a goal's a goal. That's the way you have to look at it.

Andrew Luck

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Phyllis Arthur

They want to close out their high school careers on a high note. I told them they didn't want to lose their last home game.

Annette Lu

It was like dropping two stones into a pond. We did see some ripples. However, their political careers have been in decline since then,

Leila Janah

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Neil Young

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Rachel Nichols

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Neon Hitch

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.