Opportunity Quotes · Page 250

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the…

— Dennis Edwards

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

— Richard Donner

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

— Kinky Friedman

“Every transition is an opportunity to purge and rethink - to begin something magnificent, to anticipate a miracle.”

— Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

— Herbert Hoover

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I didn't think the family business would be big enough to have an opportunity for me.

— Brian France

It's about getting off your ass and maximizing all the opportunities that life has to offer.

— Jason Ellis

Gigabit Opportunity Zones would enable Americans to become participants in, rather than spectators of, the digital economy. They would be a powerful…

— Ajit Pai

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has…

— Alexa Chung

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also…

— Kaya Scodelario

The CHOICE Act provides students with an opportunity, rather than a one-size-fits-all solution, by giving parents a choice in what educational opportunities…

— Tommy Tuberville

There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to…

— Lee L Jampolsky

Playing in the NHL, it's a great job, it's a great life to live, and we just want to have the opportunity…

— P. K. Subban

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have…

— Aaron Koblin

The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first…

— Giovani Bernard

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest…

— Mary B. Harris

I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal…

— Riya Sen

What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the…

— Hal Elrod

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the…

— Amartya Sen

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered; it has to…

— Rajneesh

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone…

— Hilary Swank

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

— Jim Rohn

There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we…

— Justin Trudeau

“No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.”

— Chris Burkmenn

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

— Russell Simmons

“Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone.”

— Bruce Lee

You want your kids to have an opportunity. We're going to fight to give you that.

— Bernie Sanders

As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity.

— Amala Akkineni

I want to follow my dreams but I have a feeling you won't give me the opportunity.

— Raghib Clitso

Drag Race' is a huge opportunity for us to elevate drag culture, to tell our stories. It really is a career-maker.

— Violet Chachki

In my opinion, whenever I've been given the opportunity to play, I've done well and scored goals, and that will continue to…

— Peter Crouch

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

— Larry Carlton

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I just think that every situation that you go through, you get an opportunity. Sometimes you have to make your opportunities.

— Jared Dudley