Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

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.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Alexa Von Tobel

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

Alex Gibney

What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

Albert Pujols

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

David Miliband

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

Julia Voth

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Amanda Abbington

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

John Mackey

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

Jeff Greene

I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.

Ed Jovanovski

I've been around long enough that people know what kind of player I am and I think there's only an upside to all this.

Lorde

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

J. August Richards

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Margaret Thatcher

We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time.

Peter Morgan

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Peter Lynch

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Monica Bellucci

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

Terry Goodkind

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Lewis Thomas

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

Simon Beaufoy

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.