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
  • Live

• 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

• Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Chance

• 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

• Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Trying
  • Without
  • Excel

• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sweet

• I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

  

  Dominique Wilkins
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Player

• I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Why
  • Age
  • Silence

• I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

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

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation