Quotes about opportunity
opportunity flags world
What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world. Chris Witty
opportunity animal way
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film. Chris Weitz
opportunity two people
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. Chris Van Allsburg
opportunity acting georgia
Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles. Chris Tucker
opportunity people lovely
I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs. Chris O'Dowd
opportunity female lines
The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.
opportunity stories tvs
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium. Chris Pratt
opportunity people outcomes
Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive. Chris Hayes
opportunity america light
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining. George W. Bush
opportunity california firsts
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. George Stoneman
opportunity people growth
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. Gail Godwin
opportunity land long
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. Frederick Jackson Turner
opportunity names america
America has been another name for opportunity.
opportunity diversity internet
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. Frederick Forsyth
opportunity important self-made
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. Frederick Douglass
opportunity play league
I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me. Felix Pie
opportunity people world
People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. My jump gave them an opportunity to come along for the ride. They could watch live on their screens how someone rises all the way up into the stratosphere. Felix Baumgartner
opportunity class dysfunction
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. Henry Louis Gates
opportunity wonderful offers
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. Henry Miller
opportunity hands abuse
The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way Helen Keller
opportunity people roles
With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it. Cate Blanchett
opportunity men thinking
I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.
opportunity silence important
It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all over England would pay handsomely for the privilege of such an opportunity. Can we put aside the display of your wit for a moment? This is important. Cassandra Clare
opportunity politics vices
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. George Eliot
opportunity air satisfaction
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
opportunity skills temptation
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
opportunity views cheerful
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
opportunity thinking long
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
opportunity men use
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
opportunity talent
There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
opportunity life-is succession
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
opportunity years race
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
opportunity world france
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. Francois Mitterrand