Opportunity Quotes

• Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Friends
  • Team

• If done correctly, dynamic scoring will provide a more complete picture of Congress's actions. This is exactly the type of modeling the private sector uses, and advances in data collection and analysis create an opportunity for it to be employed accurately.

  

  John Delaney
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Picture

• I'm proud to have opened two schools in Africa and one in Jamaica through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.

  

  Serena Williams
  • School
  • Kids
  • Giving

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • People
  • Opportunity

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Service

• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Learn

• I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Job
  • Challenge
  • Explore

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Change

• The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

  

  Lloyd Cutler
  • Country
  • Done
  • Political

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • New

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• They're odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people's lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• 'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Career
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Opportunity
  • Practice

• About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

  

  John Carmack
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

  

  Debbie Macomber
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • Great
  • Justice
  • Supreme Court

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

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