Quotes About Opportunity

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.

Discounters gave the common man and woman the opportunity to eschew the cobbler and the darning needle, to break in a brand-new pair of shoes or socks when their toes poked through the old ones. Discounters made ordinary folks feel rich by putting a wide selection of goods within easy reach of all but the most meager budgets. Someone had to pay, of course, but that someone need not be the customer.

Here's to new blood." -Jagger Maxwell

Then, just when it seemed that only the barest of bugs survived, there would be a new version of the software. And with that, a fresh opportunity for introducing bugs.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I just write whenever I can.

True love cannot be denied," Layla said. "You know that yourself, Betsy, given your sad experiences. Life is fleeting and one should gather rosebuds—or is it rainbows? At any rate, one should get on the stick before it's too late.

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

There's really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what's next?

Sometimes, you just have to step up to the plate, even if the plate is miles outside your comfort zone.

You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it's just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate.

de la misma forma que unas veces uno es arrojado al territorio de la desgracia; otras, gracias a la valentía, la desesperación y la suerte, encuentra uno la tierra prometida

I wish you luck with a capital "F".

A senior BBC music programmer smarmed up to me and took this opportunity to remind me of my diminished status in his petty universe, "Of course, you'd have had a lot more hits if you'd just taken out all the sevenths and minor chords." I suppose I would have had even more, if I'd only taken out all of the music entirely and most of the words, too.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say—that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

A slack hand causes poverty. But the hand of the diligent makes rich (Proverbs 10:4). That is what the scripture says. So, it is up to you. Do you prefer to keep to your pride and then end up achieving nothing? Or are you ready to swallow your pride and then emerge a success eventually? The choice is always yours. But, never forget. The collision of preparation and opportunity is what generates an offspring called genuine success. -Emeasoba George