In this post, you will find great Opportunity Quotes from famous people, such as Liu Yifei, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Stacey Abrams, Betty Friedan, Ted Wheeler. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I am very excited – it’s a big opportunity for me to play for Manchester United, a new challenge for me. I will try to do my best.
Whether I’m playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It’s like sharpening my blade.
I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.
Opportunity sometimes comes once in a lifetime.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
That’s part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
I think everyone’s goal at the beginning of the year is to get to this time, to get an opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.
First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
I had a great opportunity to be an F1 driver but, on the other hand, I have a great opportunity to become a rally driver with a very good programme.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
America’s freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that’s happened to museums today – but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission.
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Chefs have a new opportunity – and perhaps even an obligation – to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable – greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life – like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth – they all have big opportunity costs.
So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful migration will be reduced to zero.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interesting or not is another question.
Before ‘Broad City,’ I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you’re young and don’t know exactly what you’re going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, ‘This is an opportunity; I have to try it.’
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
I am thrilled to be joining ‘CBS News‘ and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession’s most talented journalists.
A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.
‘Agent Mom’ is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love… develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as ‘Agent Mom.’
For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.
Teenagers ultimately don’t mind belonging to a group, because there’s always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
You’ve got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won’t rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
New Hampshire has led the nation in streamlining government regulation to allow job-creators the opportunity to grow and expand.
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
It’s fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you’re just like, ‘Oh, I’d love to work at home.’
As a midfielder, you have to have vision. If you see an opening that might create an opportunity, you have to believe in yourself and go for it; a 40-yard pass or an eye-of-the-needle ball. You have to feel you are going to make it. That’s the way I play. I have a picture in my mind, and I go for it.
In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
Whenever you take it into overtime, you give yourself an opportunity.
I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.
With ‘Black Panther,’ black artists were provided with the opportunity and agency to create art that captures the full range of their imaginative possibilities. It matters that Chadwick Boseman is the protagonist and is supported by a cast of nearly all black characters.
Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I’m here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.
I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.
Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
I’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to have a sitcom because I’ve been on TV like 10 times, but it was all reality shows, semi-acting like that.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences – this life and beyond – we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don’t have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I’m still bankable.
By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.
I was extremely honoured and privileged to have had the opportunity to visit Oxford University. It was a great experience to share personal anecdotes from my career and my journey and to indulge in a fun interactive session with the students there.
People would say it’s very improbable that I’d make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn’t discouraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had.
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
I always mention stacking the dishwasher – any opportunity. But it’s the consequences – it’s the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.
My work on titles was a marvelous opportunity to learn about filmmaking. I think I touched on just about every aspect of the process, both creative and technical. And I worked with many wonderful people.
Sometimes you don’t get in through the front door. Sometimes you don’t get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn’t mean the opportunity wasn’t there. There’s a way; you’ve just got to find it.
We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.
China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.
Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can’t go across it.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
When I came to Swansea, no one said to me: ‘Whatever happens you’re going to be No. 1.’ But I felt I would at least have the chance to start or be given an opportunity and then it would be up to me to take it.
I walk in a space of gratitude. I’m so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do what I love.
Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Obviously, I’m enjoying my County stint. This is the first time I am playing County cricket and it’s a different experience. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime and everyone should play it.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
The way people receive our music is different and some people may say that our music is not metal. But I feel that those reviews allow us to challenge ourselves and gives us an opportunity to grow even more.
Last year when I was playing for Hamphsire, Delhi Capitals asked me if I was interested in playing for them. I took my time and I thought it’s an opportunity for me to learn something new. To take my game forward, to take my T20 game forward.
They’re a redefinition of boredom… the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
What’s most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That’s the holy grail.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
It’s an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.
Husbands, recognize your wife‘s intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don’t be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.
I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don’t want just one or the other. I want both.
Anytime we’re talking about Thurgood Marshall, that’s a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
The promise of American opportunity and prosperity means something different to each of us. What we each envision varies in terms of wants and needs, and aspirations can change over time. But we all want to see our children have more opportunities than we had.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
If you don’t already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there’s a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.
What’s happening in crypto – and certainly what’s happening at Ripple – we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class… I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
Being drafted 13 definitely motivates me, but I love where I was drafted, I love the opportunity I was drafted into. But the 12 guys ahead of me are in the back of my head all the time.
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.
I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about co-dependency, I’m talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
I feel like it’s important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That’s what it’s all about, just helping.
Green technologies – going green – is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.
Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.
I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
Despite their good intentions, today’s businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives – to do good and make money simultaneously.
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn’t pass that up when it comes your way.
Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me – something I thought I’d never be able to do again.
Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
Coinbase is ‘the’ brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.
America is another name for opportunity.
‘The Price Is Right,’ it was an honor to be offered it because it’s such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.
Don’t live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.
Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the ‘how’ of the ways we do our work rather than the ‘what’ of the work itself.
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone’s neighbor.
Basketball was just secondary, and I never had the opportunity to really address the issues that I was having physically.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
I feel that I’ve got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it’s so important.
I wouldn’t miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I’d do it all over again, every single minute.
When an opportunity comes knocking, you don’t necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.
I feel like my whole career has been a blessing. In particular, the opportunity to be a part of ‘Hamilton‘ was life-changing.
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community’s many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn’t speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.
I’m fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That’s something that I aspire to establish myself.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
In the direct-to-consumer channel, we continue to look at the entire world as an extension opportunity for all of our brands.
Palace offered me the opportunity to come and play and I took it with both hands.
The transition to clean energy should not be viewed as a burden to be overcome but, rather, an extraordinary job creation opportunity for the United States.
The global commitment for the Sustainable Development Goals offers a profound opportunity to tackle the structural, social, and economic changes needed to end AIDS.
Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.
My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.
We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.
As an entrepreneur and on behalf of the company’s management, I am thankful to have been given the opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the company’s mission of building the world’s most loved hospitality brand that is focused on bringing a better lifestyle for the common man.
One third of the economy goes through ‘QuickBooks’ in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I’m doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn’t much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.
The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
We will continue our work to uphold the values within our families, communities, and institutions that our service members have fought to protect: equality, justice, opportunity, freedom, and a shared responsibility to each other.
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
If one’s man’s trash is another man‘s treasure, then one industry‘s potential failure is another’s opportunity.
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
I’ve always wanted to assist Gautham. I’m happy that I actually got an opportunity to write for him. It’s a dream come true to be associated with him.
I don’t mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
But in the back of my mind I’ve always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it’s done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL, you’re under the microscope and everybody’s watching. There are people that look up to us. So you have to watch out for what you do and who you’re around.
As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don’t have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.
What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there’s a real opportunity to get them into work.
I’ve been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
You can’t have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
I don’t really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I’ve made the decision I don’t view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.
I love paddle boarding. It gives me that feeling of peace as well as an opportunity to enjoy nature’s true beauty.
There’s no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction – only a wardrobe opportunity.
You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
I get up every morning and thank God for giving me the opportunity to play football.
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
I had my chance in the World Cup Final and, wow, it was the opportunity I needed to show the whole world what I was capable of.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.
I’d like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn’t be thought of as a model.
Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
I’m so excited to be joining Arsenal. It’s a fantastic club, and I’m really looking forward to the opportunity of playing football at the highest level.
It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
I don’t consider myself a feminist, but I’m down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, ‘What do you want to say?’ it would be, ‘Love yourself more.’
In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.
The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.
I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.
I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
It is brilliant to be able to say ‘you have never had a holiday with your wife and your kids, here you go.’ It is really lovely and heartwarming and we get to do it. It is lovely to get that opportunity. We remember them all.
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you’ll get another opportunity.
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
Being a part of ‘Empire’ was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.
I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person – this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life – finally have an opportunity to live.
My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
So I’m still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is.
We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.
Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I’m genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there’s an opportunity for something good to happen.
‘Soul Plane’ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
I’ve had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.
Being ‘back in my body’ means being able to do the things I love, but do them in the way I love, and in my way, and in my time, giving myself the opportunity to just be me.
Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a – I don’t want to say it – but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
The thing I’m most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they’ve never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Change brings opportunity.
I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
‘Bond‘ was like Christmas: can’t wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.
The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it’s important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.
Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‘Well, put your hand over here.’
In life, you can’t regret anything because it’s called opportunities that you pass. You’re the only one that can take the opportunity but you disappoint yourself with the decision of doing or not doing.
Part of the American dream is ‘I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.’
Just doing a project because it’s an opportunity won’t create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
Convergence and the blurring of lines across industries creates the opportunity for women to really excel.
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, ‘Well, really, what were they thinking?’
Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.
The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.
Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.
I’m honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men’s wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I’m blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella‘ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’
Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.
I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.
This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.
I’m really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven‘t had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there’s so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me – because I don’t think that’s very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don’t hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that.
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.
I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.
I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person’s point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.
We feel like we’re the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.
I haven’t got an opportunity to experiment with the dimensions of my moustache much. But yes, if the role demands, I’m ready to shave it off. I feel it’s good to have moustaches for South films, but I’d love to remove my moustache; why not?
My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren’t entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn’t understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Learn from the past, but don’t live there. Build on what you know so that you don’t repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company’s life.
There are millions of people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it’s a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.
By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature – they are young adult and romance right now. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that these are genres that provide places for women to express desire and love for adventure, for the opportunity to be placed to heroic roles.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
I want to start a foundation called Second Chance. I was given a second chance, so I want to reach out to different groups of people. It would be nice to give that opportunity to others.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
Reducing a product’s definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity – orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.
The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.’
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
As a kid, I said, ‘I want to write for movies.’ When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. ‘Wow, I’m finally doing this for real.’
I’m the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
Live in the moment; make the most of any opportunity that comes your way.
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I’ll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.
I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.
Let’s always remember that we work for the people of Louisiana. They honored us with the opportunity to serve.
I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.
As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you’ll rarely be disappointed.
I like the opportunity to make films.
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
I’m glad to be part of an era when we are blessed with the opportunity to inspire and entertain through connectivity.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
I hope I’ll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story and that of the countless immigrants whose American Dream stories have helped build our country into the greatest nation in the world.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.
I will take any opportunity to help others.
The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.
I’ve been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can’t wait to share more originals in the future.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
I loved doing ‘Pennies from Heaven.’ Because you have to understand that I’d been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don’t think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Gold Star Families Remembrance Week gives us an opportunity to honor and recognize the sacrifices made by the families of members of the Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and secure our nation.
If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I’m going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.
‘Shark Tank’ is fun, but it’s all business. We use our own money, and the competition between the sharks is fierce. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to invest in businesses that are being watched and considered by millions of people every time it’s shown.
When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity.
My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it’s a very privileged one – being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.
I hope I’m saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.
I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.
Give me an opportunity, I’m going to take advantage of those opportunities.
A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.
One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.
Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
