Opportunity Quotes

• Growth is essential to providing economic opportunity.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Family
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Technology
  • Communication

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Me
  • Engagement

• I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Manager

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • California
  • Act

• I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Career
  • Opportunity
  • Path

• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Wings

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Partner

• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Focus

• Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • American
  • America
  • True

• Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Health
  • Care

• The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Attitude
  • Nasty

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Funny

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Door

• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Myself
  • Baby

• You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • Opportunity

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

  

  John Hume
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Violence

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