Quotes About Opportunity

I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

It was a complete no-brainer. Literally, the call came through: Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to offer you, with no audition, The Wicked Witch of the West at the London Palladium - I'm in!

I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Approach each day with the same mindset that your opportunity can come within a blink of an eye.

If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.

Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.

Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

The black man's journey within the genre of grappling wasn't unlike the challenges their brethren faced in professional sports, entertainment and, most importantly, everyday life. To say it was challenging would be a massive understatement.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

I really like it that they promote from within.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.