Opportunity Quotes

• I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Opportunity

• I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

  

  Big Money
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Major Leagues

• You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  

  E. J. Bonilla
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Honest

• Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Opportunity
  • Time Is

• Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Great
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Gratitude

• I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • Life
  • History
  • Space

• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Obligation
  • Majority

• If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.

  

  Elaine Cassidy
  • Opportunity
  • Choose

• I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed... It is my heritage...to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

  

  Dean Alfange
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Creation

• More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.

  

  Al Gore
  • Important
  • True
  • Political

• California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beach

• Sigourney Weaver is a wonderful person. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to meet and work with such an amazing actress. I believe that our chemistry was immediate from the moment we met, and continued to grow. She helped to make me feel comfortable during all the scenes that were filmed.

  

  Carrie Henn
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Wonderful

• For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Opportunity
  • Brother
  • Hockey

• I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Mind
  • Study
  • Happiness

• My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Reality
  • Football
  • Player

• With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

  

  John Madden
  • Life
  • Age
  • Guy

• I think the lesson is that when you give black voices a platform and the opportunity to tell our story, we will tell good stories just like anybody else.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Good
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

  

  John McCain
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Opportunity
  • Better
  • Should

• And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.

  

  William Devane
  • People
  • Character
  • Together

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