Quotes About Opportunity

As a kid, I hated home, and I just wanted so much to learn or do something that could take me away and keep me away forever. And then I got blessed to get to make music and meet people who wanted to work with me. And then, the next thing I knew, I was on the road, and I was gone.

Our job is to find out what's the next thing that is going to be advantageous to us and contribute to winning.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

You pick a project. You think, 'I can succeed at this. I can help them. I can make it so that they'll want to call me again the next time.'

I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

We know the beauty of football is that you get another chance next year.

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

It's nice to play in America.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.

This is the time for me to step out and show that I don't just want to play the nice guy roles, and I think I'll find out what my limits are.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

I was able to do nice things at 135, and came to 115 at the perfect time.

I was introduced to money as a teenager, my friends had nice things. It came naturally to me to try and make money.

There have been auditions where they've said nicely, 'Would you be willing to go to the gym for this role?'

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.