Quotes About Opportunity

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

We're here for such a short period of time.

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.