Quotes About Opportunity

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.

You are a gaming person, which is to say you are the kind of person who believes that "game over" is a construction. The game is only over if you stop playing. There is always one more life. Even the most brutal death isn't final.

You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.) She walked through another gate. What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.

Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,' " Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

I want this job." "Many people do, my girl." "How do I get it?" Maya asks. "Reading, as aforementioned." Maya nods. "I do that." "A good chair." "I have one of those." "Then you're well on your way," Daniel tells her before setting her back on the ground. "I'll

The way he put it to Marx: "This summer is my last chance to do something truly grand.

But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.) She walked through another gate. What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

While Sadie experienced this period of indecision as stressful, Sam didn't feel that way at all. The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky?

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

Estamos todos vivendo, no máximo, metade de uma vida, pensou. Havia a vida que você viveu, que consistia das escolhas que você fez. E aí havia outra vida, aquela das coisas que você não tinha escolhido. E às vezes aquela outra vida parecia tão palpável quanto a que você estava vivendo.