Opportunity Quotes
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I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.
David Dobkin
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My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
James D. Watson
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The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.
Ed Stetzer
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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.
Donovan Bailey
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Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Arthur Brisbane
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There's a lot of opportunity for game developers to show value to people, things they want to spend money on. I think offers are just another kind of ads.
Mark Pincus
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
B. J. Novak
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For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.
Aldo Leopold
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Pitt is prepared to make Pitt the best opportunity for Jamie Dixon and keep Pitt the best opportunity. There are a lot of things that go into making Pitt a great opportunity for a coach. It's more than just salary.
Jeff Long
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That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
Dee Dee Myers
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One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.
Andrew Breitbart
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I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.
Pedro Martinez
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The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.
Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
Al Pacino
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I think people get excited about summer wardrobes and what they will wear on holiday, and people have an opportunity to wear things that they don't normally wear when they're in the city.
Jade Jagger
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I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
Joe Torre
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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
Bradley Whitford
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I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
Ellen Ochoa
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We hope between September and December live gates will return to the UK. There is also a chance they won't — if that's the case, we will take the (Pulev) fight elsewhere, we have had a number of approaches from the Middle East, China, and Croatia to stage the fight. We want to give ourselves every opportunity to stage it in the UK but we know it may not be possible.
Eddie Hearn
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When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.
Jessica Chastain
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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
Jodie Foster
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The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
Oprah Winfrey