Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Kawasaki

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

Greg Graffin

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Gracia Martore

Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.

Glenn Greenwald

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Ginny Brown-Waite

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

Gwen Ifill

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

Ryan Newman

Hey, this could still be the first opportunity to pull away a victory if the thing is still illegal.

Pat Riley

He's right there with (Red) Auerbach and you've got to give him his kudos. He's done something remarkable and has an opportunity to do something even more.

Ingmar Bergman

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Jack Canfield

What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?'

Jack Canfield

One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.

Jack Canfield

When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.

Isabelle Huppert

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

Irwin Schiff

All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

Jack Markell

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

Jack Ma

Opportunities are where the complaints are.

Jack Nicholson

There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.

Jack Kingston

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Jack Kemp

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Jack Kemp

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

Jack Johnson

Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

It is a unique, high-end technological opportunity for the students.

Erlana Larkins

I think there was a lot of one-on-one defense. There wasn't much opportunity for people to help.

Jeffery Spurgeon welcomes the opportunity to prove to you ... he can be a productive citizen.

Shimon Peres

I see an opportunity that we must not miss.

I see little upside opportunity in this stock.

I said to myself if the opportunity came, I would go down there. If the opportunity comes up again, I'm ready to go.

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

Richard Nelson

I think this is an extraordinary opportunity for the state.

Sean Payton

I think this was an opportunity unique to the NFL.

I'm so excited. It is going to be a wonderful opportunity for me.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.