Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Redfield

Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time...

James Hansen

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most.

James F. Byrnes

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

Laura Hillenbrand

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Kyan Douglas

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Harvey Mackay

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

Harvey Mackay

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

George Barna

When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

The incumbents had their opportunity to make changes.

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.

Manfred von Richthofen

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

Mallory Ortberg

You have a wonderful opportunity here to not care about something that doesn't matter to you. Please don't miss out on it.

Malcolm Wallop

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Malcolm Turnbull

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't think we [people] are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

Malcolm Gladwell

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

Malcolm Gladwell

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Mahatma Gandhi

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.