Quotes about opportunity
opportunity play today
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play. Van Morrison
opportunity challenges found
Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'. William Arthur Ward
opportunity knocking difficult
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
opportunity engagement actors
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. Walter Koenig
opportunity neglected life-opportunity
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. Voltaire
opportunity priorities attention
The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development. Vladimir Putin
opportunity self-improvement improvement
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. William Jones
opportunity starting-over being-positive
Failure is just another opportunity to start over. Yogi Berra
opportunity greatness special
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour. Winston Churchill
opportunity problem pessimist
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
opportunity men dust
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
opportunity may time-management
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits
opportunity dust people
Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.
opportunity people mass-media
We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity. William S. Burroughs
opportunity democracy privilege
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. Woodrow Wilson
opportunity america world
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
opportunity political economic
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social. William Weld
opportunity missing subtle
Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. William Wordsworth
opportunity dust gold
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
opportunity garden epic
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem. William Shenstone
opportunity america people
Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world. William J. Clinton
opportunity race doors
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.
opportunity mass-destruction iraq
What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.
opportunity directors fantastic
All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic. Will Friedle
opportunity skills rich
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them Will Durant
opportunity interesting doe
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. Sara Zarr
opportunity missing cups
When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. Sarah Addison Allen
opportunity doe ramp
Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps. Sarah Ban Breathnach
opportunity thinking stories
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. Sara Blakely
opportunity giving wife
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it. Samuel Pepys
opportunity greatness men
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great. Samuel Smiles
opportunity college land
They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity. William F. Buckley, Jr.
opportunity men evil
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle. William Faulkner