Quotes on opportunity

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Author: Paula Abdul

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

Author: John Abercrombie

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

Author: Clay Aiken

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

Author: Debbie Allen

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Author: Joan Allen

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.

Author: Joan Allen

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Author: Luther Allison

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Author: Luther Allison

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

Author: Namie Amuro

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

Author: Anthony Anderson

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.

Author: John Anderson

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

Author: Philip Anderson

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Author: Kofi Annan

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Author: Peter Arnett

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

Author: Gerard Arpey

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

Author: Joe Baca

I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.

Author: Amitabh Bachchan

Opportunity makes a thief.

Author: Francis Bacon

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Author: Francis Bacon

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

Author: Erykah Badu

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Author: Donovan Bailey

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Author: Liberty Bailey

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Author: Lucille Ball

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Author: Roger Bannister

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Author: Tom Barrett

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

Author: Martin Bashir

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

Author: Bo Bennett

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Author: Milton Berle

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Author: Henry Bessemer

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.

Author: Paul Bettany

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Author: Joe Biden

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

Author: Buffalo Bill

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

Author: James Black

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Author: Gary Blair

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

Author: Wade Boggs

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

Author: Bobby Bonilla

Life is a canvas, and you are the artist painting your masterpiece with every choice you make.

Author: Sophia Patel

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Author: Gordon Brown

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Author: Kobe Bryant

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Author: Young Buck

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

Author: Betty Buckley

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Author: John Burroughs

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Author: Steve Buyer

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Author: Jane Byrne

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

Author: Bert Campaneris

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Author: Al Capone

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Author: Claudia Cardinale

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Author: Edgar Cayce

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

Author: Margaret Chan

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Author: Kyle Chandler

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

Author: Brandi Chastain

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

Author: Brandi Chastain

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Author: Morris Chestnut

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Author: Jacques Chirac

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Author: Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Author: Winston Churchill

I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

Author: Hillary Clinton

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

Author: Jacqueline Cochran

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

Author: Sebastian Coe

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

Author: James Coleman

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

Author: Norm Coleman

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Author: Robert Collier

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Author: Robert Collier

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Author: Joan Collins

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Author: Jeffrey Combs

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Author: Mason Cooley

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

Author: Elvis Costello

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Author: Doug Coupland

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

Author: Deborah Cox

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

Author: Catherine Crier

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Author: Robert Crippen

We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

Author: Stafford Cripps

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Author: Quentin Crisp

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

Author: Jon Crosby

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Author: Aleister Crowley

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

Author: Kieran Culkin

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

Author: Mike Curb

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Author: Lloyd Cutler

Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.

Author: Al D'Amato

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Author: Clive Davis

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

Author: Marc Davis

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

Author: Bruce Davison

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Author: Dan DeCarlo

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Author: Michael Dell

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

Author: Rick Derringer

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Author: Cameron Diaz

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

Author: Dietrich Dieskau

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

Author: Larry Dixon

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

Author: Christopher Dodd

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Author: John Doerr

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

Author: John Doerr

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

Author: Richard Donner

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

Author: Byron Dorgan

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Author: Isadora Duncan

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Author: Thomas Edison

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Author: King Edward VIII

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Author: George Eliot

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Author: Rahm Emanuel

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Author: Ralph Emerson

America is another name for opportunity.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Author: Eliot Engel

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

Author: Recep Erdogan

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Author: Warren Farrell

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Author: Marshall Field

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Author: Sarah Fielding

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

Author: Steve Finley

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Author: Carly Fiorina

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Author: Roberta Flack

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

Author: Harold Ford

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Author: Michael Fox

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

Author: Michael Fox

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Author: Betty Friedan

I like the opportunity to make films.

Author: Antoine Fuqua

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Author: David Geffen

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

Author: Maurice Gibb

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Author: Mel Gibson

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

Author: Rob Glaser

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Author: Johann Goethe

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

Author: James Goldsmith

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn

I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

Author: Selena Gomez

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

Author: Alberto Gonzales

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Author: Dexter Gordon

Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

Author: Mike Gordon

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

Author: Ryan Gosling

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

Author: Lauren Graham

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

Author: Richard Grasso

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

Author: Jerry Greenfield

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

Author: Christine Gregoire

No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

Author: Adrienne Gusoff

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Author: Lukas Haas

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.

Author: Daryl Hannah

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Author: Mark Harmon

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

Author: Colleen Haskell

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

Author: Colleen Haskell