Quotes About Opportunity

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!

If we write at all, why not use our talents to the best advantage?

Life is short..Live to the fullest..

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Opportunities are seldom labeled.

What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!

Then let me tell you a thing I've learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I'd trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

And while I at length debate and beat the bush,There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

The tide tarrieth no man.

A dog hath a day.

All is fish that cometh to net.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

Every student is a chance for greatness.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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Keep passing the open windows.

In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.