![I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.](/assets/img/quote-photos/ive-always-thought-of-him-barack-obama-and-from-conversations-know-him-to-be-a.jpg)
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opportunity
He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season. Chris Murray
opportunity people risk
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk. Ron Chernow
opportunity careers fortunate
I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had. Travis Tritt
opportunity two years
I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. Regis Philbin
opportunity careers progress
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Reid Hoffman
opportunity america world
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind. Woodrow Wilson
opportunity political economic
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social. William Weld
opportunity people feelings
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together. Rob Bell
opportunity obstacles ifs
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities. Tucker Max
views world
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear. William James
views criticism trying
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing. Wesley Morris
views interpretation
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.
views voice important
I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.
views viewpoints
Every viewpoint is a view from a point. Richard Rohr
views decision listening
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. Trevor Nunn
views point-of-view
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up. Van Wyck Brooks
views quotation-marks fundamentals
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside. Umberto Eco
views hurtful looks
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. Robert Pozen
longest race
I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city. Mike Coulter
longer scope sheer size
I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.
long going-out motorbike
Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride. Tricia Helfer
long wells
They lived long that have lived well.
long mind dying
I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
long people clinton
Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better. William J. Clinton
long lightning enough
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. William Gibson
long live-in-the-moment lasts
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it. Ric Ocasek
long want sometimes
Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long. Rebecca Wells