Quotes About Opportunity

Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.

A lot of people who went to SC didn't play ball - people who do films, lawyers and doctors, people who do things in real estate and business. There's a lot of people that make things happen out here.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!

I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

When you kind of don't care, for some reason, that's when things happen.

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should've stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

It was never really an ambition of ours to crack the States. Things happen and people ask you to do stuff, but we never sat there and said, 'Oh, my God, we must break America!'

Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.

We, as a state, need to think big. What can we do to make a splash? What can we to do to say to the world, 'Not only do we want you to invest capital here, we want you to move here?'