Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael B. Jordan

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

Randy Pausch

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Rand Paul

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

Ralph Lauren

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

Eric Hoffer

The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.

In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

James Cook

Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.

James Cook

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

James Altucher

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

Jake Pavelka

When people are on 'The Bachelor' it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you're around the 'Bachelor' or the 'Bachelorette;' that one person who you're vying for attention with.

Jake Gyllenhaal

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

Jake Gyllenhaal

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

Henry Rollins

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

Henry Rollins

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

Henry A. Wallace

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Henry B. Eyring

The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.

Henry B. Eyring

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Henry B. Eyring

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

Henry Hopper

Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.

Henry Cejudo

I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

Henry Cavill

Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity..I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Heber J. Grant

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

Henry Ford

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Henry Ford

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

Mary Engelbreit

Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!

Paul Bettany

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

Patricia Hill Collins

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Patricia Ireland

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Plato

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

Philip Warren Anderson

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Paula Malcomson

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.