Opportunity Quotes
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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
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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
Roberta Flack
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Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it's an opportunity, and the best thing to do is be thankful for it.
Eric Berry
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Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.
Derek Blasberg
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When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
James Goldsmith
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I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
Rachael Ray
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I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.
Cristela Alonzo
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I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.
Libby Trickett
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There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.
Kevin Bacon
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I don't feel like we missed an opportunity. We'll have better opportunities as we go along. We're figuring out how to play against them.
Phil Jackson
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There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
Babe Ruth
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The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
Alexander Acosta
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
Al Kooper
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Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.
Cory Gardner
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
Mary McDonnell
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Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
Pal Benko
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We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
Barack Obama
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The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.
Barack Obama
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A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
Ryan Phillippe
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I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
Tyson Chandler
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I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
Ehud Olmert
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
Brian Tracy