Emile Gaboriau Quotes

Fools sit down and wait for an opportunity; sensible men make one.

Emile Gaboriau

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• 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

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • God
  • History

• 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.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Up
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Different
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Work
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Country
  • Girl
  • Opportunity

• What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people's lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • People
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• We feel that the Republican platform presents the best opportunity for the success of minority families. All minority groups seek the same opportunities in the United States that the settlers from Europe did when they came over.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Think
  • Self

• My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I'm trying to sort out is what we mean - what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means - when they say 'black man,' or they say 'white person.'

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Culture

• There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Transformation
  • Four

• So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Country
  • Security
  • Immigration

• Fools sit down and wait for an opportunity; sensible men make one.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Opportunity
  • Wait
  • Fools