Quotes About Opportunity

I've only three times in my career felt I absolutely had to play a part and the first two I got close and was vetoed - by the same person actually. So when 'Strike' came along I had no qualms about signing on for something I was potentially still going to be doing in 10 years.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.

Drag Race' has given many super-talented people 15 minutes of fame... Many don't strike while the iron's hot though and are only really seen again sitting at finales or reunions for the show.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

That's why you get three of them. Say you get one that you don't think is a strike, and they call it on you: that's why you get two more.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

Everyone likes to strike while the iron is hot. That's a philosophy I've always liked.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

I think that if you can work and travel, that is the best deal you can strike.

I have been lucky to strike a balance between the off-beat and commercial films.

I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I must play. It is what I must do.

In the early 70s I was offered a job on a newspaper. At the last minute the offer was withdrawn because there was a strike on. I bought a nightclub and turned it into a restaurant instead.

You just don't turn your back on a going business and strike out in a new one if you don't think it has a chance.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

If an idea or opportunity strikes organically, I would do it.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

I've always approached the game, going back to when I got drafted in 2012 to Denver, like I was going to be the starter. That's how you have to prepare, whether you are first string, second string or third string, because you never know when something is going to happen to the guy in front of you.

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'