Quotes About Opportunity

Carpe Diem means 'Seize the Day'! Make the BEST of it in Every way! Don't lose a moment, come what may! Forget about tomorrow, Just Live Today!

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Winning is you just have to be quick, you snooze you lose

liberation is about human flourishing. It is about creating systems that do not limit the ability of human beings to flourish, to reach their highest potential.

I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, "Where's the money?

The Champ said: "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

It was chance that led me to walk along the road to P.C.L. and, in so doing, the road to becoming a film director, yet somehow everything that I had done prior to that seemed to point to it as an inevitability.

Buddhists consider a personal encounter with a buddha a rare chance, and an occasion for deep gratitude. The rarity of this opportunity is emphasized by the Buddhist saying that it is as difficult for a living being to be born human and to encounter the Buddha as for a blind turtle that raises its head above the surface of the sea only once in a hundred years to put its head in a hole in a floating log. This metaphor encourages the devotee to pursue religious training.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

They tell you in this country that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we all believe that. But first you've got to have the boots. And the federal government gave Franni's family the boots.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

The World Is Yours

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second.

What's called luck is usually an outgrowth of successful communication.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

There's no such thing as merit separated from biography, he had told me. The only question is whether you're going to let your biography hold you down or help you up.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Anesthetized by youth, I missed it.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.