Opportunity Quotes
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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
Erykah Badu
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Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.
Sandra Fluke
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Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.
Luis Fortuno
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I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.
James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
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Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.
Hal Elrod
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I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.
Anne Donovan
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Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
David Suzuki
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Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.
Barbie Ferreira
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Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual opportunity and economic freedom.
Kevin Brady
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
W. Brett Wilson
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As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.
Dominic Sherwood
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.
William Weld
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I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
Jeff Merkley
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One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.
Georg Stanford Brown
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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
James Salter
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Stephen Covey
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I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I'm leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left.
Barack Obama
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Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.
Barack Obama
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Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S.
Bill Simon
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Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.
Alan Tudyk
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This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.
Ed Murray
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Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
Lisa Cholodenko
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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
Andrew Whitworth
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Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
James Van Der Beek