top of page
.png){kind=small}
Opportunity Quotes
"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."
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
33
"I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'."
33
"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."
33
"We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts."
33
"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."
33
"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
33
"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."
33
"I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause."
33
"The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself."
33
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
32
"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
32
"If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation."
32
"Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight."
32
"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
32
"And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here."
32
"So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective."
32
"A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public."
32
"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."
32
"What was on the other side?"Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it.""He... never went through it?""That's why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn't see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever."
32
"You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers."
32
"It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity."
32
"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."
32
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
32
"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
32
"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
31
"In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance."
31
"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
31
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
31
"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."
31
"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."
31
"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."
31
"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese."
31
"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
31
"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since."
31
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
31
"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."
31
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."
31
"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
31
"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."
31
"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
31
"We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing."
31
bottom of page