Opportunity Quotes
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I loved auditioning because it was just an opportunity to act. Whether or not I got the job was the next hurdle, but the idea that I would get to act that day was the thing that excited me the most about it.
Zachary Quinto
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Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. Then, when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention than if you hadn't done that constantly.
Hillary Clinton
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Stay open to opportunity - you never know where your next important connection will be made.
Nicholas Boothman
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Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.
Chris Hogan
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I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.
Angelina Jolie
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I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
Simon Sinek
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Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
Ernie Fletcher
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On grass, you need big weapons like great serve, volley or big forehand, players with such weapons will play well on grass. I think you can have a good opportunity to develop your weapons on grass.
Kei Nishikori
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It's been great -- the playing time, the opportunity to start a few games. I'm just enjoying myself and having a good time when I'm here.
Brian Dopirak
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Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
Mukesh Ambani
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Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
Rick Perry
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Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.
Izabel Goulart
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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Joe Biden
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As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.
Dean L. Larsen
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You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.
Rickey Henderson
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The value of being silent: I never miss an opportunity to say nothing.
Garrison Wynn
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The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Elliot W. Eisner
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When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.
Sean William Scott
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One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.
Terence McKenna
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Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
Claudius Claudianus
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Although I do wish that females were given more of an opportunity on a musical level, beyond just singing.
Bassnectar
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Whenever you are out of work, you need to take the opportunity to do things you like to do.
Nigel Pearson
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Therefore, I do not think we should go only 60 years back but should look deeper, centuries back. Maybe this will give us [Russia and Japan] an opportunity to look at the future from a more remote perspective.
Vladimir Putin
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A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand