Quotes About Opportunity

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

He had acres of time there.

It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.