Quotes about opportunity
opportunity careers giving
Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career. Lauren Bush
opportunity scratches chance
It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love -- I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again. Lauren Conrad
opportunity hands play
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life. Levon Helm
opportunity events substance
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting. Lewis H. Lapham
opportunity done united-states
Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
opportunity men years
I went to New Zealand this year, and, whew man, I know a lot of people want to go there. But let me just tell you, it's 22 hours by plane. So, if you have the opportunity, don't. Lewis Black
opportunity silence golden
Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden. Lewis Carroll
opportunity equality years
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. Leonard Boswell
opportunity purpose problem
When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. Peace Pilgrim
opportunity discovery important
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions. Philip Emeagwali
opportunity people entrepreneur
As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. Peter Thiel
opportunity thinking people
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.
opportunity past causes
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
opportunity eternal-happiness purpose
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests. Peter Kreeft
opportunity television roles
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television. Penelope Ann Miller
opportunity careers barcelona
For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career. Penelope Cruz
opportunity enlightenment new-opportunity
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. Pema Chodron
opportunity giving brave
They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!] Phil Collins
opportunity soul wish
I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. Peter O'Toole
opportunity america groups
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. Peter Chernin
opportunity wind sea
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
opportunity cities people
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people. Rachel Griffiths
opportunity thinking trying
I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more. Q'orianka Kilcher
opportunity control-of-your-life people
Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make. Puff Daddy
opportunity next knows
So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set. Queen Latifah
opportunity giving people
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
opportunity doors vampire
Everybody loves vampire stories, and if theres one show in particular thats done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through. Madchen Amick
opportunity jail long
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust. Haruki Murakami
opportunity trying three
All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen. Greer Garson
opportunity epic tales
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. Graydon Carter
opportunity men thinking
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. John Malkovich
opportunity men blessing
It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away. John Lubbock
opportunity going-away want
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. John Lydon