Quotes About Opportunity

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So

A guided meditation is an opportunity to look deeply into the mind, to sow wholesome seeds there, and to strengthen and cultivate those seeds so that they may become the means for transforming the suffering in us.

Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

If we accept life and everything that belongs to life—the moments of happiness, joy, and peace, but also sickness, old age, and death—then we don't suffer anymore. So suffering is okay. Not only is suffering okay, but thanks to suffering we have an opportunity to experience well-being.

To preserve yourself is to preserve the opportunity to serve others.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.

I feel incredibly blessed to be a part of the Jordan Brand family.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

I count my blessings every day for getting to play Josh in 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.'

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

How many black people are there in the higher echelons of any industry? We can talk about journalism, we can talk about politics. So why should football be any different?

I am doing communications in journalism to do sports broadcasting. I'd love to go into that kind of stuff.

I was living in Argentina in Buenos Aires and I was working as a journalist, but I was earning so little money and I needed extra money, and I went on Craigslist, looking for writing jobs.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I've been blessed to experience such a lot.

I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.