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

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• 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

• This is our opportunity to change the leadership of the White House.

  

  Charles Bass
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Liberty
  • Victim
  • Transcendent

• I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  

  Jean Craighead George

• We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Women
  • Country

• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Peace
  • Water

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

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Opportunity
  • Wait
  • Fools