Quotes About Opportunity

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

There's always time to launch your dreams

Once upon a time I would've leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

Every time you are willing to say "Yes" to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!