Quotes about opportunity
opportunity helping seize-the-opportunity
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. Confucius
opportunity inconvenience
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. Confucius
opportunity media people
There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry. Curtis Stone
opportunity multiple-choice focus
Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum. David Cameron
opportunity years agriculture
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come. Dave Heineman
opportunity kale trying
This will be Michelle Obama's last opportunity to try to get me to eat kale. David Letterman
opportunity people suffering
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare. Dalai Lama
opportunity animal indulge-in
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it. Dalai Lama
opportunity miracle challenges
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty. Dalai Lama
opportunity goal effort
It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity. Dalai Lama
opportunity way film
I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself. Dolph Lundgren
opportunity people
As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time. Dolores Huerta
opportunity trying sometimes
Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity. Dolores Huerta
opportunity defining-moments arise
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. Dick Pound
opportunity thinking years
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
opportunity giving worry
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. Desmond Tutu
opportunity beloved-community survival
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community. Desmond Tutu
opportunity numbers great-opportunity
Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me. Delmon Young
opportunity trying lucky
I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Debbi Fields
opportunity
All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself. Debbi Fields
opportunity redemption outcomes
The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen. Dean Karnazes
opportunity expectations trying
I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.
opportunity expectations feminism
Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.
opportunity one-direction interesting
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up. Anderson Cooper
opportunity talking people
You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be. Anderson Cooper
opportunity awards care
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. Amartya Sen
opportunity community poverty
We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world. Amartya Sen
opportunity income example
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. Amartya Sen
opportunity development systematic
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states. Amartya Sen
opportunity people water
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. Amartya Sen
opportunity inspire challenges
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity. Amartya Sen
opportunity actors directors
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. Anthony Michael Hall
opportunity people admire
I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better. Anthony Mackie