Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation…

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

— Tupac Shakur

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an…

— Noah Wyle

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

— Karin Slaughter

On stage, you can bring all those strong emotions that you don't have the opportunity to live. You don't want to die for love…

— Sylvie Guillem

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

— Nas

Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being…

— Gil Blake

People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,…

— Warren G. Bennis

I was contacted by Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, MP, through the Pune Film Institute and offered the post in the NFDC. I accepted it for…

— Suresh Gopi

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

— Norman Jewison

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need…

— Sutton Foster

If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'

— Cameron Russell

I struggled and I did theater for 10 years, for 15 years, I tried to get little parts here and there in TV shows.…

— James Tupper

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that…

— Marco Rubio

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf