Quotes About Opportunity

Obviously, I'm enjoying my County stint. This is the first time I am playing County cricket and it's a different experience. It's an opportunity of a lifetime and everyone should play it.

That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're happy for anything you can get.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there was no goalkeeper, and the coach put me in goal.

Obviously going from an electrician to doing what I do now, the money is great. I can go on holidays now and do different things.

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

Another occupation might have been better.

In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.

I live by the law of averages," said Alois. "I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.

You remember how it feels, don't you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you're penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you'll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don't take a chance.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle