Opportunity Quotes
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When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots -
When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'
Marc Platt
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That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.
Barack Obama -
Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
Marianne Williamson -
I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.
Kate Simon -
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Douglas Coupland -
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.
Corey Feldman -
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity we have.
Patricia Espinosa -
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
Brian Tracy -
The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.
T. Harv Eker -
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon -
Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.
Louise Nurding -
In this world of opportunity every youngster today could get employment if he or she learned some specialized trade, some skill, some ability.
R. M. Williams
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I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
Big Money -
We're excited about the opportunity that we have to play this weekend. It seems like we've been waiting an eternity to get started with this spring season.
Bryan Shelton -
When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.
Russell M. Nelson -
As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
Andrew Lansley -
I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.
Ray Allen -
I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing.
Lucy Powell
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I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
Gary Saul Morson -
I think China is going to be a tremendous business opportunity, we continue to focus on being a strong regional business there.
Doug McMillon -
What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
Janet Reno