Opportunity Quotes

• The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

  

  Douglass North
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• It's fantastic to have the opportunity to race at home, so I wouldn't miss it.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Home
  • Opportunity

• I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Challenge
  • Inspiration
  • Inspired

• As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Opportunity
  • Empty
  • Fill

• Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Senior

• It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.

  

  Tom Frieden
  • World
  • Window
  • Closing

• What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • Growing
  • Obstacles
  • Lasting

• I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Person
  • Challenged

• When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

  

  George Pataki
  • People
  • Opportunity

• If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • People
  • May
  • Opportunity

• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Real
  • Greatness

• Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Opportunity

• I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.

  

  Offset Migos
  • Opportunity
  • Star

• I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • People
  • Guy
  • Team

• He was WBC champion, I was mandatory. He had his opportunity to earn big money and defend against me, and he chose not to. It's as simple as that. He did not want to fight 'The Cobra', cos he knew he was probably going to get one of these (his fists) on the chin and it was going to be all over.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Simple
  • Fighting
  • motivation

• In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • Work
  • Great
  • Cool

• Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Experience
  • Quality
  • Person

• As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

  

  Lin Shaye
  • Good
  • Great
  • Real

• I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can't wait to share more originals in the future.

  

  Kygo
  • Work
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

  

  Lenny Wilkens
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Courage

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