Quotes About Opportunity

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.