Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

Bruce Lee

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Bruce Lee

I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Brooke Burns

Not being able to dance anymore [was the hardest obstacle]. But, at the same time, I feel like that was one of the very first things that did give me that opportunity to say, "Are you gonna crumble here? Or maybe God has another destiny for your life and it's a different road than what you think it is?"

Edward Norton

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Edward Norton

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

Edward Snowden

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.

Eamon de Valera

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Dwight Henry

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

Dwight Yoakam

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Dwyane Wade

I've always cared about my personal style and the way people perceive me. I know a lot of times people don't get the opportunity to talk to me, so they're just going to see what I wear, see how I'm dressed, see how I present myself.

Dwyane Wade

I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.

Dwyane Wade

I had an unbelievable opportunity here to try and follow in similar footsteps [of Michael Jordan], but in a different capacity hopefully. I took that opportunity and I'm excited about it.

Dwyane Wade

I look forward to the challenge, but most importantly, I look forward to the opportunity to do what hasn't been done that often, in a sense. Michael Jordan obviously has done it, but that's it.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

George Stroumboulopoulos

I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.

Udonis Haslem

The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Albert Camus

Life is the sum of your choices.

Annie Besant

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Annie Lennox

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

Clay Aiken

Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Clayton Christensen

The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.

Claire Danes

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

Daniel Kahneman

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

Daniel Kahneman

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Danny Elfman

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

Danny Masterson

I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.