Kathrine Switzer Quotes

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

Kathrine Switzer

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• 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

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Chess

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Different
  • Think
  • Career

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • Daily

• Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • American
  • America

• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into 'America' inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Great
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I feel like I have this different opportunity that not a lot of athletes may have. It's the fact that I'm Korean-American, and the Olympics are going to be in Korea, but I'm also riding for the States. I feel like I got really lucky that it got all pieced together - my first Olympics, being in Korea where most of my family is.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Different
  • Family
  • May

• I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Opportunity
  • Empowering

• Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

  

  Darren Flutie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you're paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

  

  King Tuff

• You have an unimaginable treasure trove of material that you can use and transform into new things. I play the computer; that’s my instrument. It’s not a question that would occur to me.

  

  Parov Stelar
  • Computer
  • Treasure
  • Instrument

• My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’

  

  Aaliyah
  • Parents

• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Accept
  • Someone

• I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Opportunity
  • Talent
  • Capability