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Quotes About Opportunity

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
~ Clarence Darrow
At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
~ Courteney Cox
Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.
~ Curtis Hanson
It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.
~ Dakota Fanning
Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.
~ David Coverdale
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
~ David Lynch
The time is now. Now we can market in real time. Now we can market instantly.
~ David Meerman Scott
The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
~ Dean Frazer
Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.
~ Deepak Chopra
As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.
~ Demian Bichir
If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.
~ Denzel Washington
I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.
~ Don Mattingly
McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
~ Dustin Clare
The best time to go fishing is when you can
~ Ed Zern
Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
~ Eda LeShan
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
~ Andrew Marvell
I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
~ Anna Sui
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
~ Dante Alighieri
Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.
~ Gustav Freytag
Make a good use of the present.
~ Horace
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
~ John C. Maxwell
Maybe next time, but probably not.
~ Lauren Oliver
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
~ Koichi Tanaka
The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
~ Kurt Vonnegut