Opportunity Quotes

• Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

  

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Discovery
  • Demand
  • Invention

• Every time the satyrs had spotted a fast food joint that they recognized from a commercial, they had hollered for a meal break. Vanessa had not always conceded, but whenever an opportunity was presented, Newel and Doren had inexhaustibly consumed milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, nachos, pretzels, nuts, beef jerky, trail mix, soda, doughnuts, candy bars, cookies, crackers, and aerosol cheese. Of the fifty most impressive belches Seth had witnessed in his life, all had occurred on this road trip.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Recognized
  • Milkshake
  • Road Trip

• I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

  

  Kyan Douglas
  • Opportunity
  • Positive
  • Model

• When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Moments
  • Purpose
  • Forever

• Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Goal

• The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Opportunity

• The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

  

  James Stewart
  • Joy
  • Christian
  • Attitude

• I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

  

  Og Mandino
  • Live
  • Why
  • Today

• Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Hard

• I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Art
  • Power
  • Awesome

• So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • Work
  • Long
  • Success

• One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Opportunity

• The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Career

• I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Offenders

• Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Jump

• There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what were the tools, what were the strategies, what was the thinking that had me break though those boundaries.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Attention

• No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Opportunity
  • Generation
  • Global Economy

• Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

  

  George Washington
  • Peace
  • Constitution
  • Excellent

• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Work
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Opportunity

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