Pierre Trudeau Quotes

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Pierre Trudeau

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• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Fish

• You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Luck
  • Push

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christian
  • Punishment
  • Believes

• I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Women
  • Think
  • Nice

• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Guilty
  • Grace

• Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation