Quotes About Opportunity

You can be anyone this time around.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

This passage is saying, "Make the most of every area in which God has placed you." Are you single, married, retired, parent, child, friend, employer, employee, student, or grandparent?

Our background, relationships, situation, and physical condition only provide the opportunity for our thoughts, words, and actions to reveal whatever is already in our hearts. Our hearts are always the ultimate cause of our responses, and where the true spiritual battle is fought.

Remember, you can't avoid conflict, but it can be a place where amazing growth takes place!

You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them. Even the history of lapel pins is far from innocent. In Nazi Germany in 1933, people wore lapel pins that said "Yes" during the elections and referendum that confirmed the one-party state.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

Failure to act always brings consequences. But sometimes, those consequences can be turned to one's advantage.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Life is beautiful and full of variety and adventure. But luck must be on your side.

La mobilità sociale ha aperto a tutti la possibilità di aspirare a qualsiasi cosa, ma con ciò nessuno è più "predestinato" a nulla. È forse per questo che la gente è sempre più disorientata e incerta sul senso della propria vita.

Weißt Du, Folco, es gibt Dinge, Ereignisse, Worte, die dich streifen, ohne dir etwas zu sagen. Später aber, in einer anderen Situation, kann genau das gleiche Wort womäglich dein ganzes Leben verändern. Aber wie unsere geliebten Inder sagen: ist der Schüler bereit, erscheint der Meister.

En la vida siempre se presenta una buena oportunidad. El problema radica en saberla reconocer y eso, a menudo, no es tan sencillo. La mía, sin ir más lejos, tenía todo el aspecto de ser una maldición. Un adivino me dijo: "¡Atención! En 1993 correrás un enorme riesgo de muerte. No vueles durante todo ese año. No tomes ningún vuelo".

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.

In the way such things happen in real life, I suspect I'll never see him again. We talked about that once. There was a term in Japanese, he said. Eng. It was both a concept and a word of advice. It meant that anyone you meet may be the most important person in your life. Therefore, that every stranger should be treated as a friend. Loved before it is too late. You never know (he said) in which night your ship is passing.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over- but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

Remember always that the perfect circumstances for your dream tour will never exist. "You will never simultaneously have infinite time, money, freedom and mojo," says Alastair Humphreys. "So the best time is now.