Quotes About Opportunity

Sabemos que nos conecta con el lugar donde queremos ir; pero ¿qué pasa si yo cruzo el puente y tú decides quedarte donde estás? ¿Los dos le daríamos uso al puente? No. Un puente solo es útil si lo cruzas. Y un puente que no se usa es un puente inútil.

The consequences are clear. There has been a collapse in intergenerational mobility:

What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

California is where you get to start over.

People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.

Become who you want to be while you can enjoy it. Don't put off doing the work of becoming who you want to be. Waiting will not make it easier, and time is short.

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)

Meet the time as it seeks us. «Encontremos el tiempo como nos busca». The Tragedy of Cymbeline, William Shakespeare

Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo. Ray Bradbury

Life is a great adventure, darling, and problems are nothing more than opportunities to show what you can do. Show them, darling. You are young and beautiful and full of imagination.

Meet the time as it seeks us. Treed de tijd tegemoet zoals zij ons zoekt. (The tragedy of Cymbeline, William Shakespeare)

You've got to jump off cliffs—and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

He who thinks too long before taking the next step will spend his life standing on one leg.

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo.

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.

There's always an element of caution when you say yes to projects, but what's unique about television is you oftentimes have no idea where it's going to go so there's a big leap of faith.

LA's a really great place to be if your movie's number one at the box office, or if your television show's a hit, but the rest of the time you're just...

And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstasy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.

It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go on…and as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." MARK TWAIN

One way to embrace the unexpected is to be on the lookout for, and respect, coincidence. I do not necessarily believe in fate, but, for me, coincidental occurrence strengthens my belief that I'm on the right path.

Change challenges our current reality by forcing a new reality to rush in.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.