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Quotes About Opportunity

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
~ Juliette Binoche
Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro!
~ Julio Cortazar
La vida, como un comentario de otra cosa que no alcanzamos, y que está ahí al alcance del salto que no damos.
~ Julio Cortazar
La vida como un comentario de otra cosa que no alcanzamos y que esta ahí al alcance del salto que no damos.
~ Julio Cortazar
En la vida, además de talento, hay que tener fortuna. Y la fortuna hay que perseguirla, no cae del cielo... Tú mismo me lo has dicho muchas veces.
~ Julio Llamazares
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries
~ Julius Caesar
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
~ Junior Seau
The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.
~ Junior Seau
But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!
~ Juno Temple
I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.
~ Juno Temple
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.
~ Junot Diaz
Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.
~ Junot Diaz
I'm teaching English in Japan next year," she said matter-of-factly, "It's going to be amazing." Not "I'm thinking about..." or "I've applied but..." I AM.
~ Junot Diaz
Later when he thought about it he realized that these very cousins could have gotten him laid if only he'd bothered to hang out with them. But you can't regret the life you didn't lead.)
~ Junot Diaz
Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.
~ Junot Diaz
En el Caribe cuando alguien habla bien tiene el respeto de la gente y de pequeño yo veía eso y me encantaba. Supongo que como a nosotros nos impusieron ese idioma colonial [el español] la resistencia consistió en eso: "Ok, tengo que aprenderlo, pero lo voy a convertir en oportunidad".
~ Junot Diaz
Los que menos corren, vuelan
~ Junot Diaz
For each of these challenges there are many answers. But the world needs more optimists to discover those more quickly. The world needs more people like you to step up and take your place as contributor, problem solver, or inventor. We
~ Jurriaan Kamp
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
~ Justice Louis Brandeis
The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch.
~ Justin Cronin
Life is a journey, and it's up to us to make the most of it. Let's embrace every challenge, and enjoy the ride.
~ Justin Guerra
Heroes can be found in the most unlikely places. Perhaps we all have it within us to do great things, but may simply lack the circumstances or the reasons to be heoric.
~ Justin Richards
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!
~ Justin Winsor
When you think about it, life is a risk. Every day is a risk. Getting in a car is a risk. Loving is a risk. But, darling, losing it all means that you have a chance to rebuild, better than before.
~ Justina Chen