Quotes About Opportunity

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I've been so lucky - I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I've brought him and is just the coolest.

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.

I was an immigrant twice, once from Egypt to Israel. Israel opened her arms and took me in. And America opened her arms, and I'm an American citizen now.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

For somebody as successful in the Ryder Cup as I am, I don't think it's smart to sit me twice.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

If there's a role for me in something in the future to do with 'The Last of Us,' absolutely I would do it, twice on Sunday.

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

As a woman of color, we're raised to know we have to be twice as good.