Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Brown

The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Jennifer Armintrout

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Gloria Feldt

I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

Glenn Turner

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

Gloria Estefan

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

Gerald R. Ford

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

Jim Cramer

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Huey Long

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

Howard Rheingold

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Howard Schultz

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

Howard Schultz

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Howard Schultz

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Howard Schultz

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Howard Schultz

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

Howard E. Koch

Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Howard Berger

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

Howard Fineman

I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.

Ibrahim Babangida

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Ian MacKaye

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Ian Mcewan

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

Hugh Laurie

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Hugh Jackman

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Horace

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Richard Jefferson

If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.

Richard Hamilton

I come from a place where this doesn't happen. To be here is unbelievable because when everyone tells you, you can't do something, you can't do something, you can't do something, and you get the opportunity to be in the NBA, to win a championship, and now, to be an All-Star, it's unbelievable.

I am not too worried. It is more an opportunity than a problem.

I don't think (this loss) is damaging. I think it's an opportunity missed.

Eric Church

We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.