Quotes About Opportunity

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

I'm not a god in the traditional fashion, I am a patron. Patrons have responsibilities. Granted, I rarely have the opportunity to exercise them.

If we are to live, we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name.

And out there, in that unending cavalcade of danger, I intend to enjoy myself.

For all the wrong reasons. But there's this – in this Hood-damned world, it's worth taking what you can get. Whatever you can get.

Your reputation puts civility far down your list of skills, Claw.' 'It's a most cherished trait of mine that sees far too little opportunity for exercise these fell days, Lieutenant.

The young were better at making friends. The young had nothing to lose

With no expectations anything can become.

The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.

Anywhere, anytime.

I want a chance to be Space Girl, too.

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)

Chance favors the connected mind.

Failure when analyzed will provide the building blocks for future successes that will be far greater than the failure itself.

When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next

To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

The meeting was just ending when Doerr asked a final question: "How big do you think this can be?" "Ten billion," said Larry Page.

Mark Pincus smelled the social-game opportunity first. He was the guy who, with Reid Hoffman, had been part of the angel investment that, in his words, was like winning lotto. In late 2006, Matt Cohler tipped him off that Facebook was going to launch a platform and was looking for entrepreneurs to come up with apps. We don't want any money from you, he told Pincus. Just build cool stuff and we'll expose you to our traffic.

There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)