Opportunity Quotes

• Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Country
  • Sports
  • Games

• You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Opportunity
  • Industry
  • Believing

• No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

  

  Merrill Markoe
  • Country
  • Hips
  • Pretentious

• The Gittins index, then, provides a formal, rigorous justification for preferring the unknown, provided we have some opportunity to exploit the results of what we learn from exploring.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Opportunity
  • Results
  • Gittins index

• So a working couple can contribute a lot more with a Roth 401(k). Each spouse can put $15,000 into a Roth 401(k). It's an opportunity to put a lot of money away that you'll never again have to share with the government.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Opportunity
  • Government
  • Contribute

• You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you learn your own vision of the world, you learn your own voice and how to hear it, and you learn to write your own work. Writers today have as many opportunities as my generation did, but they don't see the examples as clearly as we did.

  

  Russell Banks
  • World
  • Writing
  • Today

• But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

  

  Nick Lampson
  • Opportunity
  • Patriotism
  • Veteran

• I'm happy for those kids. Let those kids know if they work as hard as they can and do what they're asked to, they'll give themselves an opportunity to win the championship. They're a great example for the future kids to come.

  

  Eric Snow
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Championship

• To have the opportunity to bring 'Tallica Parking Lot' to life through images was really special. And also to have a lot of my heroes and my friends in the film was really, really special. People like Lemmy from Motorhead.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Images
  • Heroes
  • My Friends

• Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Challenges
  • Company
  • Incentives

• I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Hazards

• Disappointment and hurt is an opportunity to be transparent, but don’t be pitiful—and there is a difference.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Opportunity
  • Hurt
  • Disappointment

• I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Opportunity
  • Judge

• Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you in the United States House of Representatives. Together, we will continue fighting to protect our Texas conservative values and the preservation of the America we know and love for future generations to come.

  

  Mike Conaway
  • Future
  • Generation
  • Conservative

• The minute you supply a person with the answers, by that very action you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves. If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Action
  • Answers
  • Trip

• We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Opportunity
  • Direction
  • Deserves

• All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Laugh
  • Roles
  • Scared

• The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Moments

• There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Religion
  • Persons
  • Equality

• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Decision
  • Individual
  • Equal

• All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Opportunity
  • Species
  • Populations

• The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

  

  Catherine Bertini
  • People
  • Real
  • Window

• If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Actors
  • Performances
  • Plenty

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