Quotes About Opportunity

I don't think any player will miss a grand slam if they can play.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

Not everybody gets a home slam; not everybody gets home events. I am part of a very select few who get that opportunity, so I can only really be grateful for that.

Once you move into the second week of a Grand Slam, you know you are getting closer to playing on some of the world's biggest courts.

When you play semifinals on a Grand Slam, anything can happen, so you must be ready for the chance.

The education system of Hong Kong has often been slammed for marginalising a lot of people.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I left my native place to come to Mumbai, got routinely cheated, was given bad words, had phones and doors slammed on me. All my work and time was going down the drain. I didn't get credit for some work I did.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

Usually, the things that are quickly slapped together become the big hits, rather than the ones you would painstakingly deliberate on.

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.

I am a clean slate and am willing to learn and explore every possible genre that comes my way.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.