Opportunity Quotes
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An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.
Janet Yellen
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There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.
Michelle Waterson
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!
George Washington
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Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.
Harper Reed
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Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.
Norbert Reithofer
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
Brad Mehldau
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The most important part of my practice as an artist has been remembering to stay humble. There is so much hurt, so much sorrow, so much pain in the world, and I think when you're born and bred into privilege, it's easier to have a closed perspective on things. But there's this opportunity that's open to all of us to let empathy connect us back to one another.
Ezra Miller
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Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future technological innovation.
Etienne Schneider
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Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
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The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
Seth Godin
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I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.
Bindi Irwin
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton
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If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
Cynthia Ozick
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Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.
David Thorne
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I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.
Scarlett Johansson
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Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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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
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Chelsea is a big club, a club that has given me the opportunity to play as a starter, to grow even more.
Alvaro Morata
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You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza
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Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.
Conrad Hilton
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Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.
Lynn Schusterman
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I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most about how to act. Something I discover every time I'm doing one is how little I know about acting - how important the art of listening is, and how important it is to listen with your entire body. You can tell so much of a story with stillness, and a lot of that can be from really actively listening to your scene partner.
Sarah Paulson
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I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.
Eric Thomas