Quotes About Opportunity

There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.

We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.

It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.'

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But if my path is to go someplace else, hey, I'm there.

The thing I'm most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they've never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

Coming from the Eastern Cape, it's one of the most poverty-stricken provinces in the country, so whether it be in education or something else, I'd like to go directly there and help because I've seen it first-hand and experienced it.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.

Time can be cruel if you don't use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.

A single change can sometimes change your entire life

I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.

And another thing - don't get too comfortable. Take chances. Don't be afraid to lay it on the line. Even if you're happy. Even if you think life is freaking perfect.

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibility of disapointmet, but also the possiblity of true happiness

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love, ' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.