Opportunity Quotes
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It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
Michael Chang
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No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
Merrill Markoe
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
Stephen Covey
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
Karen Rose
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Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Anthony Robbins
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Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer
Seth Godin
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
Henry Louis Gates
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It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.
Rich Eisen
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When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
Robert Rodriguez
Chingon
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
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It's a lot of years. Not many guys get the opportunity to play their whole career with one organization, and I'm very happy.
Craig Biggio
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Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
Sean William Scott
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I think this is really an opportunity to build some bridges.
Amanda Bennett
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.
Mike Tyson
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I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us."
Paul Auster
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I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
Ravi Shankar
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I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
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I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got.
Jonathan Lipnicki
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I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
Viola Davis
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America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!
Carlos Bulosan
