Quotes About Opportunity

It's been great hearing you talk about the position. I'd love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.

by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go.

as long as you end up with the opportunities and credit you need. You

Let's say you ask your boss if you can travel to an annual industry convention, and she says yes. You end up making some key contacts who down the road introduce you to others. That's a compound effect.

Most people don't have the time to meet in person so ask for a ten-minute phone conversation. Be specific. Tell them you're looking and would appreciate any help they can give. Could they introduce you to a key person in their own organization?

Christianity did introduce (...) a religious ideal, that of chastity (...). Thus a life of virginal consecration became open to women (through which they could become men's equals), providing a respected career opportunity for [nuns], single women and widows whose aspirations were not exhausted by or directed toward the role of mother or wife. [Introduction]

You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'—you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'—you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.

The place you are going towards doesn't exist yet, you must build it when you come to the right spot.

He told me that if you had a plan in place, every situation was winnable.

New York was for people too hungry for life to be anywhere else.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

There is nothing that I can do particularly well. I do what I do because it came my way. I really never had a chance of doing anything else.' And this apology too I accept as conclusive. It is quite true that most people can do nothing well. If so, it matters very little what career they choose, and there is really nothing more to say about it. It is a conclusive reply, but hardly one likely to be made by a man with any pride; and I may assume that none of us would be content with it.

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.

there was no saying what might come in useful some day.