Quotes About Opportunity

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I prefer playing up front, really, because I feel like if I make the right run, or if I get the ball at the right time, I can just be one-on-one with the defender, and then if I manage to get past the centre-back, it's one-on-one with the 'keeper.

All I can ask for is the opportunity to go out there and beat a man one on one. If you win your one-on-one matchups in this league, you're going to have a lot of success.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

One of the things that evangelicals do really, really well is to make giving a joyous, social enterprise. Too often, the world sees giving as a burden, a sacrifice, when in fact it's more like an opportunity to help others and oneself at the same time.

There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

We are running a very strong and ongoing marketing campaign to get families to send their children to school, particularly girls.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!

If you're not a first-round pick or you're not 6-2, they always say you can't be the best. But the only time there's a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It's all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh's 'Yaanaa,' which sees her launching her daughters.

Many people from the industry come up to me and say 'We don't see you onscreen much.' But where are the scripts? Do you think I am not sitting in my office and waiting for something like 'Matru' to happen to me? I would love to do four such films in a year.